Weather in Gothenburg in June

A good month. June works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 17.3 °C, lows 12.5 °C, and rain falls on 13 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

June ranks 3 of 12 in Gothenburg. Only July scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 13 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 17.3 °C days and 12.5 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: the day barely swings — 4.9 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest June day reached 26.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 7.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 44 mm — roughly 49% of the month's rain in one day.

June is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest June on record still delivered 161 mm against 47 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 90 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 9.3 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 June sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3.3 °C warmer than May, and July adds another 2.6 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in June

June is at or near the longest days of Gothenburg's year: 18 hours of daylight, gaining 0.5 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.

June 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 — 2.5 °C warmer, 1 day more rain.

So: June is effectively as good as it gets here — 5 points behind July, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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