Liepāja or Visby? Weather and busy months compared

TL;DR

Of our 157 European cities, Liepāja and Visby are each other's closest weather match in another country: month by month, their average highs differ by 0.4 °C on average and their rainy days by 1.1. In 2025 both Latvia and Sweden were busiest in July.

Weather, month by month

1991–2020 averages at each city's weather station.2 Of every city we publish, Visby is the one whose year of highs and rainy days is closest to Liepāja's, and the other way round.

Liepāja and Visby: average weather by month, 1991 to 2020
MonthHigh, LiepājaHigh, VisbyLow, LiepājaLow, VisbyRainy days, LiepājaRainy days, VisbyRain, LiepājaRain, Visby
January1.1 °C2.0 °C−3.4 °C−1.9 °C13.0 days10.4 days58 mm43 mm
February1.2 °C1.8 °C−3.8 °C−2.6 °C9.0 days8.8 days42 mm35 mm
March4.2 °C4.4 °C−1.8 °C−1.8 °C9.0 days7.2 days37 mm28 mm
April10.3 °C9.8 °C2.3 °C1.2 °C6.0 days5.8 days29 mm25 mm
May15.4 °C15.0 °C6.6 °C5.3 °C6.0 days5.8 days38 mm29 mm
June18.6 °C18.9 °C10.7 °C10.0 °C7.0 days6.8 days51 mm42 mm
July21.6 °C21.6 °C13.8 °C13.2 °C8.0 days6.9 days64 mm61 mm
August21.6 °C21.1 °C13.6 °C13.2 °C9.0 days8.6 days76 mm57 mm
September17.1 °C16.6 °C9.9 °C9.6 °C10.0 days7.9 days74 mm48 mm
October11.3 °C10.9 °C5.4 °C5.6 °C12.0 days10.2 days84 mm54 mm
November6.1 °C6.3 °C1.9 °C2.5 °C13.0 days11.3 days73 mm56 mm
December3.0 °C3.5 °C−1.2 °C−0.3 °C13.0 days11.7 days68 mm56 mm

When each country is busy

Share of each country's 2025 tourist nights by month; “quieter” marks a month under an even share of the year (8.3%).1 These are whole-country figures, not the cities'.

Latvia and Sweden: share of 2025 tourist nights by month
MonthLatviaSweden
January5.2% (quieter)4.8% (quieter)
February5.1% (quieter)5.4% (quieter)
March5.8% (quieter)5.9% (quieter)
April6.9% (quieter)6.4% (quieter)
May8.6%8.5%
June10.4%10.8%
July14.9%19.8%
August14.2%13.4%
September8.5%7.5% (quieter)
October7.4% (quieter)6.6% (quieter)
November6.0% (quieter)5.5% (quieter)
December7.0% (quieter)5.3% (quieter)

The other way round: September.

More on each

What this cannot tell you

  • Quieter is relative. A quieter month is a smaller share of that place's own year, not fewer visitors than somewhere else.
  • One weather station per city. Coasts, mountains and city centres differ; these are long-term averages, not a forecast.
  • Country and prefecture totals. How busy a month is comes from the whole country or prefecture, not the city.
  • 2025 only. One year of visits; events and holidays move between years.

Key takeaways

  • Average highs differ by 0.4 °C a month on average; rainy days by 1.1.
  • Busiest month in 2025: Latvia July, Sweden July.
  • Quietest: Latvia February, Sweden January.
  • What we would skip: treating alike weather as an alike trip. Prices, distances and what there is to do are not compared here.

Sources

The weather comes from the World Meteorological Organization's 1991–2020 normals and the visits from Eurostat, copied from each city's and country's own page. See how we research.

  1. Source: Eurostat, Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_NIM, accessed 25 September 2026. Dataset last updated by Eurostat on 22 September 2026. Extract: number of nights, NACE codes I55.1–I55.3, all guests and split by guests resident in the country and abroad, January–December 2025.
  2. Weather: WMO Member Nations (2023). WMO Climatological Standard Normals for 1991-2020 (NCEI Accession 0253808), the station named for each country in the table (the same station its country page uses), mean daily maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation and number of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation, normals computed from at least 24 years; also station MilanoLinate (station ID 00016080); also station BariPalese (station ID 00016270), from the same files, downloaded 24 September 2026. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. doi:10.25921/800j-vn07. Accessed 22 September 2026. Released by NOAA under CC0.

We matched, sorted and rounded the figures ourselves, and the rule for a match is ours; the agencies have not checked or endorsed these pages. Shares are rounded once, to one decimal.