The coolest places in Europe in July: ranked by average high temperature

Longyearbyen tops the list at 8.2 °C in July. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in July: Longyearbyen (8.2 °C) , Tórshavn (12 °C) , Reykjavík (14 °C) . Between first and 50th place the avg high differs by 12 °C.

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen 8.2 °C 8.2 °C 5.2 °C 32 mm 7 378 h
2 Tórshavn Faroe Islands 12 °C 12 °C 9.5 °C 63 mm 15 293 h 9.7 °C
3 Reykjavík Iceland 14 °C 14 °C 8.7 °C 86 mm 14 357 h 11 °C
4 Douglas Isle of Man 16 °C 16 °C 13 °C 69 mm 12 358 h 14 °C
5 Aberdeen United Kingdom 16 °C 16 °C 12 °C 66 mm 13 342 h 13 °C
6 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 16 °C 16 °C 9.3 °C 73 mm 10 308 h 11 °C
7 Saint Peter Port Guernsey 16 °C 16 °C 15 °C 37 mm 7 391 h 16 °C
8 Murmansk Russia 16 °C 16 °C 9.2 °C 69 mm 13 347 h
9 Stavanger Norway 17 °C 17 °C 12 °C 110 mm 14 376 h 15 °C
10 Bergen Norway 17 °C 17 °C 11 °C 149 mm 16 363 h 15 °C
11 Belfast United Kingdom 18 °C 18 °C 12 °C 84 mm 15 304 h
12 Glasgow United Kingdom 18 °C 18 °C 11 °C 94 mm 15 291 h
13 Edinburgh United Kingdom 18 °C 18 °C 12 °C 73 mm 13 311 h 14 °C
14 Saint Helier Jersey 18 °C 18 °C 15 °C 49 mm 9 391 h 17 °C
15 Oldham United Kingdom 18 °C 18 °C 11 °C 89 mm 15 325 h
16 Dublin Ireland 18 °C 18 °C 13 °C 76 mm 15 319 h 15 °C
17 Preston United Kingdom 19 °C 19 °C 12 °C 99 mm 16 345 h
18 Trondheim Norway 19 °C 19 °C 11 °C 87 mm 14 353 h
19 Mariehamn Aland Islands 19 °C 19 °C 15 °C 52 mm 8 442 h 16 °C
20 Swansea United Kingdom 19 °C 19 °C 13 °C 95 mm 15 347 h 16 °C
21 Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom 19 °C 19 °C 12 °C 65 mm 12 352 h 14 °C
22 Cork Ireland 19 °C 19 °C 13 °C 70 mm 12 306 h
23 Liverpool United Kingdom 19 °C 19 °C 13 °C 87 mm 15 354 h 16 °C
24 St Helens United Kingdom 19 °C 19 °C 13 °C 81 mm 14 346 h 16 °C
25 Bradford United Kingdom 19 °C 19 °C 12 °C 76 mm 14 330 h
26 Severodvinsk Russia 19 °C 19 °C 12 °C 72 mm 12 426 h 13 °C
27 Sunderland United Kingdom 19 °C 19 °C 12 °C 64 mm 12 354 h 14 °C
28 Manchester United Kingdom 19 °C 19 °C 12 °C 86 mm 15 317 h
29 Plymouth United Kingdom 19 °C 19 °C 14 °C 73 mm 12 354 h 16 °C
30 Cardiff United Kingdom 19 °C 19 °C 13 °C 75 mm 12 344 h 17 °C
31 Brighton United Kingdom 20 °C 20 °C 14 °C 54 mm 10 366 h 16 °C
32 Oulu Finland 20 °C 20 °C 13 °C 79 mm 12 421 h 15 °C
33 Stoke-on-Trent United Kingdom 20 °C 20 °C 12 °C 72 mm 13 319 h
34 Kingston upon Hull United Kingdom 20 °C 20 °C 13 °C 66 mm 12 362 h 14 °C
35 Leeds United Kingdom 20 °C 20 °C 12 °C 68 mm 12 337 h
36 Mansfield United Kingdom 20 °C 20 °C 12 °C 66 mm 12 338 h
37 Sheffield United Kingdom 20 °C 20 °C 13 °C 73 mm 13 340 h
38 Birmingham United Kingdom 20 °C 20 °C 12 °C 66 mm 12 330 h
39 Haarlem The Netherlands 20 °C 20 °C 15 °C 80 mm 13 381 h 17 °C
40 Vladivostok Russia 20 °C 20 °C 18 °C 121 mm 11 244 h 18 °C
41 Bournemouth United Kingdom 20 °C 20 °C 14 °C 47 mm 9 365 h 16 °C
42 Derby United Kingdom 20 °C 20 °C 12 °C 67 mm 12 330 h
43 Newport United Kingdom 20 °C 20 °C 13 °C 66 mm 11 334 h 18 °C
44 Arkhangel’sk Russia 20 °C 20 °C 12 °C 75 mm 12 416 h
45 Bristol United Kingdom 20 °C 20 °C 13 °C 63 mm 11 336 h 18 °C
46 Petrozavodsk Russia 20 °C 20 °C 14 °C 87 mm 14 406 h
47 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Russia 20 °C 20 °C 14 °C 84 mm 9 278 h
48 The Hague The Netherlands 21 °C 21 °C 15 °C 76 mm 12 380 h 18 °C
49 Århus Denmark 21 °C 21 °C 13 °C 66 mm 11 401 h 17 °C
50 Gothenburg Sweden 21 °C 21 °C 14 °C 93 mm 12 402 h 18 °C

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

August: top 5

  1. Longyearbyen 6.8 °C
  2. Tórshavn 12 °C
  3. Reykjavík 13 °C
  4. Murmansk 14 °C
  5. Aberdeen 16 °C

Full ranking for August

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
The average daily high temperature, in °C, in July, lowest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in Europe with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by population.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering is ours.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.