The
southern most of the Nordic countries is Denmark, home to the ‘happiest
people in the World.’ Denmark
is a low lying country with a temperate climate, winters are not overly cold
and summers are relatively cool. In the height of summer the average
temperature sits at 15 degrees and winter sees an average of 0 degrees Celcius.
The
country’s capital, Copenhagen,
has been voted the ‘3rd most livable city in the world’ by a
European magazine and sees mild conditions year round. Summer in Copenhagen
sees the city witness average maximums of a pleasant 19 to 22 degrees, and
winter sees average minimum temperatures of -3 degrees and 1 degrees in
February and December respectively, maximums of about 2 degrees.
Denmark, like other Scandinavian countries, is
affected by the varying sunlight that is typical of regions in northern
latitudes, however it doesn’t see the light and dark extremes that parts of
Northern Finland, Sweden and
Norway
see. During middle of winter the sun will rise at 9.30AM and set again come
4.30PM, and the height of summer sees the sun rising at 3.30AM and setting
again at 10PM.
