When is finlands summer

If nothing else, relaxing in a Finnish sauna is the perfect start or end or both! A summer breeze blows as you make your way to an open-air stage, where an orchestra is accompanying an opera singer. Not your scene? How about a heavy metal festival? Or pop? Or EDM? From low-key evenings to all-day dance parties, you and Finland can make beautiful music together in the summer.

Dinner Under the Helsinki Sky is an annual event that transforms streets, parks, and other urban areas into glamorous dining rooms. Participants to this unofficial tradition bring their own meals to white tablecloth-covered tables long enough to seat up to a thousand people, and enjoy a dinner with friends, family, neighbours, and strangers alike.

Of course, if you agree that Dinner Under the Helsinki Sky is an event not to be missed, you can always come back to fully enjoy it! Across the country, precipitation is not very abundant, and it ranges from millimeters The rainiest periods are summer and autumn. In the center-south, August is generally a bit rainier than July.

The least rainy and snowy period is the one that runs from February to April. In winter, light snow often falls, which may not even be counted in the statistics if it does not reach a minimum amount of equivalent rain.

Finland is largely a flat country. However, in the north, there are hills, and in the extreme north-west, on the border with Norway, even a mountain, Halti, 1, meters 4, feet high. Autumn Summer ends with an explosion of color in the forests. Winter The snow season in northern Finland begins in November and lasts at least until May. Spring Summer is short in Finland and spring is even shorter. Read More about Summer. Read more about winter. Read more about spring. You might also enjoy these.

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Finnish Summer Food. The coldest day of winter is usually well after the winter solstice, at the end of January everywhere except the maritime islands and coastal regions, where the slower cooling of the sea delays the coldest period until the beginning of February.

The lowest temperature recorded in Helsinki is The lowest temperature recorded at any weather station in Finland as of is Thus, spring begins a month earlier in the south than in the north. Its duration ranges from 45 to 65 days, being longest in the maritime islands and coastal regions, because of the coolness of the sea. This takes place about one month after the beginning of spring: at the end of April in southern Finland and at the end of May in northernmost Lapland.

For the real growing season to begin the snow must melt; this depends on the amount of snow, elevation and the position of the region relative to the sea. Open areas lose their snow cover within two to three weeks of the beginning of spring, whereas on average the snow in the forest smelts about two weeks later.

The lakes usually become ice-free soon after the growing season begins in April in southwestern Finland, in May in the interior and in June in Lapland. Summer usually begins in late May in southern Finland and lasts until mid-September. Summer in Lapland starts about one month later and ends a month earlier than the south coast. The regions north of the Arctic Circle are characterized by "polar days", when the sun does not set at all.