When does it get dark in HAM/CPH?
 

Hello. I will be spending the fall living in HAM and will be traveling around Europe as much as possible. A friend warned me that as the winter arrives, it will get dark earlier and earlier. As a result, I may try to see most of Scandanavia in September as opposed to November. My question is, in HAM or CPH, what time does it get dark (on average) around...

September 15
October 15
November 15
December 15?

Thanks for any help you can provide. I will be leaving December 20.

According to this applet I found, the sun sets at these times in southern Sweden:

September 15 - 19:27

October 15 - 18:09

November 15 - 16:04

December 15 - 15:36

Thanks PappaG; that applet is very helpful!

Thanks, PappaG ^

It seems pretty accurate from what I can tell for Southern Sweden.

I like it in the winter when it is dark and hopefully snowing already at 16, you're walking back home and it is just.. comfy!

most common weather for CPH/GOT mid-April?
 

That time and date applet is great. Now I've got a semi-related questions for the Scandinavia experts.

What weather would you expect in southern Sweden/Copenhagen mid April? Still loads of snow, beginning spring, or ? Gadding about weather, or stay at home weather?

Our last experience in Malmo was mid-September, and we got sleet and freezing rain (quite the shock for these Californians!). Now we're invited to visit distant cousins next year, in a couple cities in south-east Sweden, and we're wondering if we dare go at Easter, or if we should wait 'til June. I've got a slight preference for trying April, as we could combine seeing kin with a side trip to the tulips of Holland.

The snow (if there will be any in the first place!), will most likely be gone by the end of February.
For Denmark/Southern Sweden - daytime average around 10C (50F):

(The red curve shows daytime temps)

http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/index/danmark/...manormaler.htm

What you experienced in mid-September is not normal for there. April in southern Sweden is reasonably pleasant, but you will need a jacket (just not a big winter one). Southern Sweden has warmer weather than Chicago in winter but doesn't get as hot in summer. (That said, this August so far is a bit on the cool side ... when last year, it was not.)

Summer in Sweden is quite nice. Nothing like walking around at 11 p.m. and thinking it's 7 p.m (or trying to go to sleep at 11 p.m. and wondering if it's too early or not when you look outside).

April/easter can still bring you sunshine sometimes. The occasional day where no jacket is needed can occur, as can the days with cold rain however.

how do you read it?
 

How do you read the chart on the linked page? What do the numbers on the left and right hand sides mean? What is 'nm?'

The numbers on the right side are temperatures in celsius. The colored lines are for daytime temp, nighttime temp and noon temp. Dag is day, natt is night and middle is noon for this purpose.

"nm"???? "mm" is millimeters.

Just to add to GUWonder wrote, the table reads:

Nedbør mm - (rain or snow in mm)
Nedbørsdage- (No of days with rain or snow)
Dagtemp - (Day temp)
Middeltemperatur- (Mean temp)
Nat Temp - (Night Temp)
Solskinstimer- (Hours of sunshine)