When is the best time to visit Sweden?

Most guides agree on Jan, Feb, Mar, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Dec. Stockholm: May to September (June and July for the light, which barely goes out). Swedish Lapland: December to March for the snow and the lights, June to August for the midnight sun.

When is the rainy season in Sweden?

No guide in Sweden has a month above 250 mm; the wet months are wet, not under water.

Sweden travel tips

Best time to visit Sweden

Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Sweden agrees on Jan, Feb, Mar, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Dec.

Place	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D	In words
StockholmMay to September (June and July for the light, which barely goes out)													May to September (June and July for the light, which barely goes out)
Swedish LaplandDecember to March for the snow and the lights, June to August for the midnight sun													December to March for the snow and the lights, June to August for the midnight sun

best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.

The guides in Sweden

Stockholm across the water at dusk, with the City Hall tower and the old town on their islands

StockholmSwedenFourteen islands of pale stone and dark water, with an archipelago of thirty thousand more behind them

Green and violet northern lights over snow and bare birch in Swedish Lapland

Swedish LaplandSwedenA hundred nights a year under the aurora, and a summer when the sun does not set at all