Visby weather by month
The best time to visit Visby is June to August — 86/100 in July, 22°C and 7 rainy days. The best season is summer, June to August (84/100 on average).
The worst month is December at 28/100 — cold, a little rain, clean air. See December →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Sweden →
Best season: June to August (84/100 on average) · worst December (28/100)
- Days
- 22°C
- Nights
- 14°C
- Wet days
- 7
- Sun
- 13.7 h
- Humidity
- 72%
- Daylight
- 17 h
Visby, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Visby is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Visby through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Visby in July
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
Peak crowdsAlmedalen Week, Peak Gotland summer, Summer holidays in Sweden(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Good to know before you go to Visby
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
Visas & entry
A guide to Visby's medieval old town recommends prioritizing a walk of the City Wall, St. Mary's Cathedral, and a loop through the surviving lanes among the 200-plus medieval buildings that give the UNESCO-listed town its character. Their timing warning: if visiting during Medieval Week in August, when the town stages tournaments and markets with locals in full period dress, lodging books out months in advance, so this isn't a trip to plan last-minute if that's the draw.
Traveller notes on Visby
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Early June gets you Gotland at its best and its emptiest — the forum rates late May and early June as when nature peaks and the crowds have not arrived, with weather notably better than the rest of the Scandinavian peninsula and less rain. Eighteen hours of daylight, 21°C days. The catch is that quite a few restaurants and cafés do not open until mid-June, so early June trades company for closures. The other timing note: Visby's Medieval Week — authentic dress, feasts and jousting inside the 13th-century walls — is an August event, not a June one.
A Gotland forum thread put it well: December here is dark, wet, and windy, and any snow that falls before Christmas usually doesn't stick around - more often it turns to sleet or freezing rain before it can settle. That matches what the numbers show: barely six and a half hours of daylight and less than two hours of actual sunshine most days, with highs only just above freezing. Visby's medieval old town still looks beautiful under string lights, but pack a proper waterproof coat over a snow jacket - you're more likely to be walking through slush than powder.
Add your own note from Visby's card on the map.