Weather in Gothenburg in July

A good month. July works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. You should expect rain on 15 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

July is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is August, and the month at the other end of the year is December.

Rain on 15 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average July reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 4.8 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest July day reached 29.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 11.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 37 mm — roughly 39% of the month's rain in one day.

July is moderately variable: 11 mm in the driest year against 218 mm in the wettest, around an average of 95 mm. Roughly two Julys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 8.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 80%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How July sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 17.3 °C in June, 19.9 here, 19.5 in August. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in July

July is at or near the longest days of Gothenburg's year: 17.5 hours of daylight, losing 1.4 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 21.2 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

July in Gothenburg versus nearby

If Gothenburg is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Århus is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Linköping is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.7 °C warmer, 1 day more rain.

So: July is the answer for Gothenburg. If it is booked out or priced out, August is the next best thing at 4 points behind, and December is the month to keep off the shortlist.

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