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34  INTRODUCING SWEDEN

for the derby title on the
trotting track in Malmö.
Kivik Apple Market (end Sep).
Apples are the focus of this
two-day festival, which attracts
around 20,000 visitors. Giant art
installations created with tons of
apples are a particular highlight.
Harvest Festival, Öland
(end Sep/early Oct). Sweden’s
biggest harvest festival takes
place over four days around
Beech forest in autumn at Söderåsen, Skåne Michaelmas, with around 900
events attracting 200,000
September visitors to enjoy local food,
Autumn
Oxhälja Market, Filipstad concerts and exhibitions.
The nights may be drawing (early Sep). This traditional
in, but the mornings are light market takes place in October
and the days often crisp and eastern Värmland. Lidingöloppet (first weekend
clear. In late autumn Tjejmilen, Stockholm in Oct). The world’s
deciduous trees provide a (early Sep). In a lively largest cross-country
stunning display of colours. atmosphere at race, with tens of
It’s harvest time in the forests Djurgården, thousands of
and countryside, and a wide Stockholm’s royal competitors, including
variety of delicious edible park, 33,000 elite runners, senior
mushrooms, as well as blue- women take part Chanterelles citizens and children.
berries, lingonberries and the in a 10 km run. Umeå International
red-gold cloudberries of the Swedish Trotting Derby, Jazz Festival (end Oct). This
northern marshes are all ripe Jägersro (Sep). Sweden’s top leading jazz festival was first
for the picking. four-year-old horses compete staged in the 1960s.

Climate
STOCKHOLM GOTHENBURG Considerable variations
Average in climate from north to
°C/°F 22/76 °C/°F 21/70 maximum south sometimes result
in southern Sweden
13/55 13/55 12/54 temperature
9/48 10/50 10/50 Average minimum having no snow and
5/41 6/43 temperatures above
1/34 -1/30 2/36 1/34 temperature
-5/23 -3/27 freezing in winter, while
the north is blanketed
6 8 3 1 6 8 3 1 Average daily in thick snow. The
hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hours of sunshine differences are less
30 72 50 39 41 68 83 61 extreme in summer.
mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm Average monthly The effect of the North
month Apr Jul Oct Jan month Apr Jul Oct Jan rainfall Atlantic and the Gulf
Stream is felt on the west
coast in mild damp winds
and the highest rainfall.
MALMÖ ÖSTERSUND LULEÅ
21/70 20/68
°C/°F °C/°F 19/66 °C/°F
13/55 12/54
10/50 10/50 11/52
7/45 6/43 6/43
5/41
2/36 2/36 1/34 4/39 0/32
-3/27 -3/27 -6/21 -4/25 -7/19
-13/9 -16/3
6 7 3 1 6 7 2 1 7 10 7 0.6
hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs
38 61 57 49 32 86 45 36 29 50 50 40
mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm
month Apr Jul Oct Jan month Apr Jul Oct Jan month Apr Jul Oct Jan

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