Helsinki: Best Time to Visit
- January-March
- Winter weather is cold and dreary, days are short
- Plenty of snow and northern lights
- May - June
- Shoulder season, best weather, and white nights
- Finnish summer holidays usually start in late June
- July-August
- July to mid-August are the warmest with white nights
- Summer holiday season, tourist season, mosquitoes
- Most Scandinavians take off the month of July
- British and Southern Europeans visit Scandinavia in August
- September
- Good weather, minimal crowds, and northern lights begin
- Many attractions close during the shoulder season
- October
- Cold
- Many attractions are closed
- Norhtern lights
- December
- Northern lights
- Winter weather is cold and dreary, days are short
