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

Longyearbyen tops the list at 2.4 °C in September. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in September: Longyearbyen (2.4 °C) , Murmansk (9.5 °C) , Reykjavík (10 °C) . Between first and 50th place the avg high differs by 13 °C.

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen 2.4 °C 2.4 °C -0.9 °C 46 mm 10 139 h
2 Murmansk Russia 9.5 °C 9.5 °C 4.5 °C 56 mm 12 175 h
3 Reykjavík Iceland 10 °C 10 °C 5.8 °C 134 mm 17 209 h 10 °C
4 Surgut Russia 10 °C 10 °C 4.1 °C 62 mm 12 178 h
5 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 11 °C 11 °C 4.3 °C 65 mm 13 182 h
6 Yakutsk Russia 11 °C 11 °C 2.7 °C 37 mm 8 242 h
7 Tórshavn Faroe Islands 11 °C 11 °C 8.8 °C 88 mm 15 196 h 10 °C
8 Severodvinsk Russia 12 °C 12 °C 6.8 °C 65 mm 13 207 h 9.9 °C
9 Arkhangel’sk Russia 12 °C 12 °C 6.2 °C 65 mm 12 197 h
10 Syktyvkar Russia 12 °C 12 °C 5.6 °C 64 mm 13 171 h
11 Bratsk Russia 12 °C 12 °C 6.0 °C 44 mm 10 255 h
12 Berezniki Russia 12 °C 12 °C 6.1 °C 76 mm 14 187 h
13 Oulu Finland 12 °C 12 °C 7.2 °C 58 mm 10 222 h 12 °C
14 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 13 °C 13 °C 6.0 °C 108 mm 10 258 h 11 °C
15 Zlatoust Russia 13 °C 13 °C 5.4 °C 59 mm 12 226 h
16 Petrozavodsk Russia 13 °C 13 °C 8.3 °C 60 mm 12 216 h
17 Nizhny Tagil Russia 13 °C 13 °C 6.1 °C 62 mm 11 194 h
18 Tomsk Russia 13 °C 13 °C 4.9 °C 53 mm 11 227 h
19 Kirov Russia 13 °C 13 °C 6.7 °C 57 mm 11 203 h
20 Perm Russia 13 °C 13 °C 6.8 °C 65 mm 12 202 h
21 Cherepovets Russia 13 °C 13 °C 8.4 °C 56 mm 10 204 h
22 Yekaterinburg Russia 13 °C 13 °C 6.2 °C 51 mm 10 215 h
23 Vologda Russia 14 °C 14 °C 7.2 °C 60 mm 11 194 h
24 Tampere Finland 14 °C 14 °C 8.6 °C 55 mm 10 212 h
25 Tyumen Russia 14 °C 14 °C 6.3 °C 50 mm 10 212 h
26 Krasnoyarsk Russia 14 °C 14 °C 5.0 °C 54 mm 12 238 h
27 Trondheim Norway 14 °C 14 °C 7.2 °C 106 mm 15 229 h
28 Bergen Norway 14 °C 14 °C 8.9 °C 245 mm 18 222 h 15 °C
29 Kemerovo Russia 14 °C 14 °C 5.6 °C 59 mm 12 244 h
30 Novosibirsk Russia 14 °C 14 °C 6.1 °C 49 mm 10 243 h
31 Rybinsk Russia 14 °C 14 °C 8.4 °C 61 mm 11 215 h
32 Miass Russia 14 °C 14 °C 6.3 °C 43 mm 9 239 h
33 Mariehamn Aland Islands 14 °C 14 °C 12 °C 47 mm 9 274 h 14 °C
34 Kostroma Russia 14 °C 14 °C 7.8 °C 65 mm 11 209 h
35 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia 14 °C 14 °C 6.8 °C 48 mm 9 219 h
36 Aberdeen United Kingdom 14 °C 14 °C 11 °C 61 mm 11 240 h 13 °C
37 Saint Petersburg Russia 14 °C 14 °C 8.9 °C 55 mm 11 241 h
38 Stavanger Norway 14 °C 14 °C 11 °C 188 mm 17 237 h 15 °C
39 Izhevsk Russia 15 °C 15 °C 7.3 °C 58 mm 10 225 h
40 Yaroslavl Russia 15 °C 15 °C 7.8 °C 60 mm 10 209 h
41 Helsinki Finland 15 °C 15 °C 9.6 °C 58 mm 10 253 h 14 °C
42 Chita Russia 15 °C 15 °C 3.9 °C 47 mm 8 285 h
43 Prokop’yevsk Russia 15 °C 15 °C 5.4 °C 53 mm 11 258 h
44 Vantaa Finland 15 °C 15 °C 8.7 °C 57 mm 10 252 h 14 °C
45 Velikiy Novgorod Russia 15 °C 15 °C 9.1 °C 61 mm 11 223 h
46 Omsk Russia 15 °C 15 °C 6.4 °C 33 mm 8 233 h
47 Tver Russia 15 °C 15 °C 8.2 °C 64 mm 10 222 h
48 Douglas Isle of Man 15 °C 15 °C 13 °C 87 mm 13 264 h 15 °C
49 Turku Finland 15 °C 15 °C 8.7 °C 59 mm 10 262 h
50 Glasgow United Kingdom 15 °C 15 °C 9.1 °C 86 mm 13 213 h

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

October: top 5

  1. Nicosia 27 °C
  2. Limassol 27 °C
  3. Sevilla 25 °C
  4. Murcia 25 °C
  5. Córdoba 25 °C

Full ranking for October

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
The average daily high temperature, in °C, in September, 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.