Weather in Iceland in July
The warmest month tops both temperature curves — charted in full — and holds the series’ closing fact: a record low of +1.4°C. July has never frozen.
July weather in Iceland: the warmest month tops both temperature curves — 14.9°C days, 9.1°C nights, charted in full below — over the second-driest total (49.9 mm). And the series’ closing fact: a record low of +1.4°C — July has never frozen in the capital’s books. Live reading below.
What is the weather in Iceland right now?
| Town | Now | Wind | Sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reykjavík | 8°C | 7 m/s | Overcast |
| Vík | 8°C | 10 m/s | Overcast |
| Borgarnes | 8°C | 9 m/s | Overcast |
| Ísafjörður | 5°C | 8 m/s | Mostly clear |
Live Open-Meteo readings for our reference towns, fetched at render. The full live board — roads, alerts, aurora, webcams — is Iceland Pulse.
July in Reykjavík — the whole table
| Metric | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Mean daily high | 14.9°C | The table’s highest — July owns it |
| Mean daily low | 9.1°C | The warmest nights of the year |
| Record high | 25.7°C | The capital’s all-time heat record |
| Record low | +1.4°C | The ONLY month that has never frozen |
| Precipitation | 49.9 mm | Second-driest, after June |
| Sunshine | 183.1 h | Third place — May and June ahead |
The record rows hold the month’s two trophies: 25.7°C, the hottest reading Reykjavík has ever logged, and +1.4°C, a record low that never reached zero — unique in the table. One asterisk for honesty: that is the capital’s station; highland ground frost happens year-round, which is why the warm layer stays packed even now. All twelve months: the weather-by-month table.
The temperature curve — all twelve months
| Month | Mean high (°C) | Mean low (°C) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.2 | -1.7 | |
| February | 3.3 | -1.9 | |
| March | 4.2 | -1.3 | |
| April | 6.9 | 1.0 | |
| May | 10.1 | 4.0 | |
| June | 13.0 | 7.2 | |
| July | 14.9 | 9.1 | ◀ the summit, both columns |
| August | 14.1 | 8.6 | |
| September | 11.4 | 6.2 | |
| October | 7.6 | 2.7 | |
| November | 4.7 | -0.1 | |
| December | 3.3 | -1.6 |
Every pair from the same IMO 1991–2020 normals table, read the same day. The shape is the Icelandic climate in one glance: a gentle ocean-flattened curve, February’s nights at the floor (−1.9), July at the top of both columns — and only about seventeen degrees separating the coldest normal night from the warmest normal day of the entire year.
How much daylight does July have?
| Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Day length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07-01 | 03:04 | 23:59 | 20 h 55 m |
| 07-10 | 03:24 | 23:42 | 20 h 18 m |
| 07-20 | 03:53 | 23:15 | 19 h 21 m |
| 07-31 | 04:29 | 22:40 | 18 h 11 m |
Computed, not copied — sunrise and sunset for 2026 at Reykjavík’s own coordinates (64.15, -21.94), NOAA solar algorithm. The month opens one minute short of midnight (23:59) and honestly sheds two and three-quarter hours by the 31st — the year has turned, and that bright sky is why the aurora still takes the month off.
July or August — which has better weather?
The most-asked comparison, answered from the tables: July wins the weather row — warmer (14.9/9.1 against August’s 14.1/8.6), drier (49.9 mm against 64.5), sunnier (183.1 hours against 164.8) and longer-lit (opening at 20 h 55 m against 18 h 05 m). August wins the sky row: real darkness returns in its final week, bringing the first aurora chances of the season — the sibling page where this twelve-part series began.
For the month beyond its weather — the open highlands, Landmannalaugar, the Mývatn honesty — the July pillar carries it, and August takes the baton.
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Photograph: Skógafoss from the clifftop in July (20 July) by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Climate normals 1991–2020 (including the record rows and all twelve temperature pairs): Icelandic Met Office, as published in the Reykjavík climate table, read 4 August 2026. Daylight computed at render (NOAA solar algorithm, Reykjavík coordinates; Iceland keeps UTC year-round). Live reading: Open-Meteo via our Pulse feed at render time, shown only when the feed answers.