Climate and average weather in Time

In Time, the summers are mild, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are cold, breezy, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late June to early September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Time typically varies from 1°C to 17°C, and is rarely below -5°C or above 21°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while February is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Time for warm-weather activities is from late June to early September.

Hottest
Aug
17°
Coldest
Feb
Wettest
Oct
222 mm
Driest
May
81 mm
Rain / yr
1796 mm
193 wet days
Daylight
5.9–18.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
66 m
58.7°N
Clearest
May
58% cloud

Time weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late June to early September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Time, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.2 months, from June 18 to September 21, with daily high temperatures above 14°C. The hottest month of the year in Time is August, with an average high of 17°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 4.1 months, from November 27 to March 31, with daily high temperatures below 6°C. The coldest month of the year in Time is February, with an average low of 1°C and high of 4°C.

Days typically run about 3°C warmer than nights year-round.

-5°10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan41
Feb41
Mar52
Apr84
May117
Jun1410
Jul1613
Aug1713
Sep1411
Oct118
Nov75
Dec53

How hot and cold Time really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -5°C (around February 5), with roughly 146 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in February.

-5°10°15°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan44-41
Feb44-51
Mar55-32
Apr8804
May111147
Jun1414910
Jul16161213
Aug17171313
Sep14141111
Oct111158
Nov7715
Dec55-23

Average hourly temperature in Time

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 17°C, and coldest before dawn in February, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Time weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / 18818.37.16.70.0
Feb / 14515.97.18.80.0
Mar / 12215.85.411.40.1
Apr / 8413.81.5141.3
May11° / 8112.40.116.52.7
Jun14° / 10°8713.2017.93.7
Jul16° / 13°10914.4017.34.5
Aug17° / 13°16316.4015.24.6
Sep14° / 11°18817.1012.63.5
Oct11° / 22218.50.39.92.1
Nov / 20818.61.67.40.8
Dec / 20018.94.46.10.1

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Time gets about 1796 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.9 months, from around Aug 18 to Mar 14, peaking in November at about 66% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around May 31.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 222 mm over about 19 wet days; May is the driest, with 81 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 1 · 66%May 31 · 40%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5918
Feb5616
Mar5216
Apr4414
May4112
Jun4413
Jul4714
Aug5316
Sep5717
Oct5919
Nov6319
Dec6119

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Time collects about 1796 mm of rain across 193 wet days — roughly 150 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 222 mm, while May is the driest at just 81 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec188145122848187109163188222208200
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan188187
Feb145167
Mar122165
Apr84142
May81120
Jun87130
Jul109140
Aug163160
Sep188170
Oct222190
Nov208192
Dec200194

Snow in Time

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Time averages about 28 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 24 to Apr 26 — about 6.1 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 29 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 113 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 30
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan729
Feb729
Mar523
Apr24
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov25
Dec421

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Time, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around March 22 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around September 11. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 49% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 13 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around March 21. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 76% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 11 · 52%Dec 3 · 23%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2476
Feb2575
Mar3070
Apr4159
May4951
Jun4060
Jul3862
Aug3763
Sep3367
Oct3070
Nov2575
Dec2476

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 19, brings about 18 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 5 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 12 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan6.79:264:07
Feb8.88:265:17
Mar11.47:066:28
Apr14.05:357:40
May16.54:188:49
Jun17.93:379:38
Jul17.34:019:25
Aug15.25:058:17
Sep12.66:166:47
Oct9.97:265:18
Nov7.48:414:04
Dec6.19:343:32

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Time averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.1 months, from around Mar 17 to Jun 19. The sunniest month is May, with roughly 9 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is November, down near 4 sunny days — about 55% fewer than the May peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedMay 1010 daysNov 24 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun7Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Time, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 4% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May10000
Jun9640
Jul73243
Aug68284
Sep9280
Oct10000
Nov10000
Dec10000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Time is typically light breeze, near 19 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Sep 12 to Mar 20. The windiest month is January, averaging about 23 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 21 to Sep 11, with July the calmest month at about 16 km/h.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezywindyJan 13 · 24 km/hJul 27 · 16 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan23breezy
Feb21breezy
Mar20light breeze
Apr17light breeze
May17light breeze
Jun17light breeze
Jul16light breeze
Aug17light breeze
Sep19light breeze
Oct21breezy
Nov22breezy
Dec22breezy

Best time to visit Time

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Time throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late August, Time is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Time for general outdoor tourist activities is from late June to early September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 1 · 4.8

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar0.1poor
Apr1.3poor
May2.7poor
Jun3.7fair
Jul4.5fair
Aug4.5fair
Sep3.5poor
Oct2.1poor
Nov0.8poor
Dec0.1poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Time rarely gets warm enough to lift this score — no time of year really suits hot-weather activities here.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDectemperaturecloudsprecipitation

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Time, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 17°C), the essentials are a warm layer and rain gear. In the cold season around February (highs near 4°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat, rain gear and a windbreaker.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Time sees daytime highs around 17°C and nights near 13°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: a warm layer. About 16 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Time

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 13 km away) is warmest in August at about 17°C and coldest in March near 5°C.

The water stays below 20°C all year — cool enough that most swimmers want a wetsuit.

5°10°15°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcool
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan6Bracing
Feb5Bracing
Mar5Bracing
Apr6Bracing
May9Bracing
Jun12Bracing
Jul15Cool
Aug17Cool
Sep15Cool
Oct12Bracing
Nov10Bracing
Dec8Bracing

UV index (midday) in Time by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Time peaks around June 16 at about 5 (moderate) — a little sun protection helps at midday. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 0 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 4 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateLowJun 16UV 5Dec 19UV 0
UV index (midday)Level
Jan0Low
Feb1Low
Mar2Low
Apr3Moderate
May5Moderate
Jun5Moderate
Jul5Moderate
Aug5Moderate
Sep3Moderate
Oct1Low
Nov0Low
Dec0Low

Average hourly UV index in Time

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 6 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended). Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr00
May60
Jun60
Jul60
Aug5.50
Sep00
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Time is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about April 4 to November 28 (239 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeApr 490%Nov 2890%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan6731
Feb5828
Mar7431
Apr963
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov953
Dec7731

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Time banks about 438 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

0200400600JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May4
Jun58
Jul135
Aug154
Sep82
Oct5
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Time receives about 2.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.2 and 5.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around Mar 26 to Sep 11. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.5 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.2 kWh/m² — roughly 96% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 55.6 kWhDec 200.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.3Dim
Feb0.9Dim
Mar2.1Moderate
Apr3.8Moderate
May5.3Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug4.0Bright
Sep2.4Moderate
Oct1.2Dim
Nov0.5Dim
Dec0.2Dim

Where is Time?

Time sits at 58.7°N, 5.7°E, 66 m above sea level, in Norway. The nearest listed city is Sandnes, 13 km away.

YtrebygdaNesttun

Topography around Time

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Time.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Time has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 235 m around an average of 73 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 470 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,323 m.

The land around Time is covered by grassland (57%) within 3 km, grassland (54%) and water (22%) within 16 km, and water (47%), grassland (28%) and trees (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
235 m
16 km
470 m
80 km
1,323 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswatermoss and lichen
Nearby: Sandnes 13 km · Sola 17 km · Stavanger 26 km · Haugesund 80 km · Kristiansand 149 km · Grimstad 173 km · Ytrebygda 176 km · Nesttun 177 km

Norway travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 91% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$94,594
2025
Happiness
7.2 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
99%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.7
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
2.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 613
Religion
Church of Norway 68%other Christian 4%Muslim 3%Roman Catholic 3%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Time (58.7333°, 5.7°, elevation 66 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).