Best time to visit Vík í Mýrdal

Month-by-month weather averages for Vík í Mýrdal.

Vík í Mýrdal, South, Iceland

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  • Average daily high and low
  • Precipitation
  • Good month
  • Best month
  • Made good or best by an event
Average daily high and low temperature, average precipitation and each month's verdict
MonthAverage daily highAverage daily lowPrecipitationVerdict
January2.2 °C / 36 °F-0.9 °C / 30 °F302 mm / 11.9 inneither best nor good
February2.2 °C / 36 °F-0.6 °C / 31 °F292 mm / 11.5 inneither best nor good
March2.1 °C / 36 °F-0.8 °C / 31 °F260 mm / 10.2 inneither best nor good
April3.6 °C / 38 °F0.8 °C / 33 °F201 mm / 7.9 inneither best nor good
May5.3 °C / 42 °F3 °C / 37 °F155 mm / 6.1 inneither best nor good
June7.6 °C / 46 °F5.5 °C / 42 °F116 mm / 4.6 inneither best nor good
July9.4 °C / 49 °F7.3 °C / 45 °F130 mm / 5.1 inneither best nor good
August9.4 °C / 49 °F7.2 °C / 45 °F162 mm / 6.4 inneither best nor good
September7.7 °C / 46 °F5.4 °C / 42 °F284 mm / 11.2 inneither best nor good
October5.1 °C / 41 °F2.5 °C / 37 °F281 mm / 11.1 inneither best nor good
November3.4 °C / 38 °F0.5 °C / 33 °F263 mm / 10.4 inneither best nor good
December2.1 °C / 36 °F-1 °C / 30 °F289 mm / 11.4 inneither best nor good
Good and best months depend on more than temperature, rain and events. How they are chosen

Each activity on this page has its own good and best months, rated on twenty years of daily weather records. Which measures count, and how much, depends on the activity: humidity for exploring outdoors, wind for the beach, hiking and skiing, snow for skiing alone. Between them, the activities are rated on:

  • Daytime highs
  • Night-time lows
  • How warm it feels
  • Humidity
  • How much of the day is sunny
  • Hours of daylight
  • Monthly rainfall
  • How many days it rains
  • Days of heavy rain
  • Wind
  • Snowfall and days with snow
  • Major events, such as festivals

The chart shows the good and best months for exploring outdoors.

The event icon marks a month that an event lifts to good or best, such as a festival or a natural spectacle. Choose “Weather only” in the toolbar to rate the months on weather alone.

Best months by activity

Exploring outdoors

Mild days and nights, mostly dry and bright. The default for 'when should I go'.

  1. JJanuary: neither
  2. FFebruary: neither
  3. MMarch: neither
  4. AApril: neither
  5. MMay: neither
  6. JJune: neither
  7. JJuly: neither
  8. AAugust: neither
  9. SSeptember: neither
  10. OOctober: neither
  11. NNovember: neither
  12. DDecember: neither

No month is good for this in Vík í Mýrdal.

Hiking and trekking

Cool enough to climb in, dry enough to enjoy, long enough days.

  1. JJanuary: neither
  2. FFebruary: neither
  3. MMarch: neither
  4. AApril: neither
  5. MMay: neither
  6. JJune: neither
  7. JJuly: neither
  8. AAugust: neither
  9. SSeptember: neither
  10. OOctober: neither
  11. NNovember: neither
  12. DDecember: neither

No month is good for this in Vík í Mýrdal.

An activity is listed only where it applies: skiing at ski destinations, beach and swimming at beach destinations. The nearest ski area is Hlíðarfjall, 252 km away.

Weather averages

Monthly averages over twenty years, 2006–2025. Highs, lows and precipitation are in the chart at the top.

  JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels like (high) -3 °C-2.9 °C-2.9 °C-0.9 °C1.6 °C4.8 °C7.2 °C6.9 °C4.3 °C0.8 °C-1.6 °C-3.1 °C
Days with heavy rain 12.1 days11.2 days10.6 days7.5 days6 days4.1 days4.2 days5.3 days10.3 days9.6 days10 days10.5 days
Time rain usually falls 11 pm5 am5 pm3 pm6 am11 am3 pm5 am9 am8 am3 am5 pm
Sunshine per day 1.9 h4 h6.6 h9.2 h11.6 h11.7 h10.9 h9.5 h7 h4.9 h2.5 h1.1 h
Relative humidity 80%81%80%81%84%88%89%87%86%83%81%79%

Air quality

Averaged over a shorter period (2022–2025) than the twenty-year averages above, and not counted towards good or best months.

  JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Air pollution (PM2.5) 2022–20253.2 µg/m³4.3 µg/m³2.9 µg/m³4.5 µg/m³6.1 µg/m³5.2 µg/m³4.8 µg/m³4 µg/m³3.5 µg/m³2.6 µg/m³2.6 µg/m³2.2 µg/m³
Air pollution (PM2.5, daily peak) 2022–20255.5 µg/m³7.3 µg/m³5.2 µg/m³7.8 µg/m³10.3 µg/m³9 µg/m³8.1 µg/m³6.7 µg/m³6.1 µg/m³4.8 µg/m³4.7 µg/m³3.9 µg/m³
  • Good 15 µg/m³ or less
  • Fair 15 to 25 µg/m³
  • Moderate 25 to 37.5 µg/m³
  • Poor 37.5 to 50 µg/m³
  • Very poor 50 to 75 µg/m³
  • Extremely poor over 75 µg/m³

Each figure is compared with the World Health Organization's guideline for a day's air, 15 µg/m³ or less, and with its interim targets above that. The words are ours: the WHO does not name its steps. The figures are modelled monthly averages, so single days can be well above them. The daily peak is the average of each day's highest hour, shaded on the same scale.

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Monthly averages over 2006–2025, unless stated otherwise.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC-BY 4.0), generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information (ERA5). City data from GeoNames (CC-BY 4.0). Air quality from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and sea temperature from Météo-France / Copernicus Marine, both via Open-Meteo.com. Coastline from Natural Earth. Ski areas from OpenSkiMap.org, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Skimap.org. World Heritage sites from Wikidata (CC0), from the World Heritage List © UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Readership from Wikimedia pageview data (CC0). Destination classification derived from English Wikivoyage, © Wikivoyage contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).