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The climate of Heerenveen (the Netherlands)
Heerenveen is a town and a municipality located in the southern part of the province of Friesland. Several small villages are situated within this municipality; among the largest are: Jubbega, De Knijpe, Oudeschoot, Nieuwehorne and Oranjewoud. The town was founded in the 16th century on the banks of the Heeresloot. Over the last decades the city has presented itself as a sports city. The Thialf Ice stadium, the Abe Lenstra soccer stadium and Sportstad Heerenveen are all situated within the Heerenveen municipality. Thialf is the most important ice stadium in the Netherlands, several international speed skating contests are held here annually. Heerenveen FC soccer club play their home matches in the Abe Lenstra stadium. Heerenveen has a moderate maritime climate influenced by its northerly situation and the warm Gulf Stream. Heerenveen has four distinct seasons. During the winter temperatures are just above freezing point on average; longer periods with subzero temperatures (during the night) are not uncommon. Summers are pleasantly warm with temperatures around 20 degrees Celsius.

Climate information
The data below is based on registered weather data and applies to Heerenveen:

	average  maximum temperature (°C)	average minimum temperature (°C)	average hours of sunshine per day	average days with precipitation per month	average mm precipitation per month	average sea temperature (°C)
January	5	0	2	23		n/a
February	5	0	3	19		n/a
March	8	2	4	21		n/a
April	11	3	5	18		n/a
May	16	7	7	17		n/a
June	18	10	7	19		n/a
July	20	12	6	19		n/a
August	21	12	6	19		n/a
September	18	10	4	21		n/a
October	13	7	3	22		n/a
November	9	3	2	24		n/a
December	6	1	1	24		n/a
= 0-5 mm ● = 6-30 mm ● = 31-60 mm ● = 61-100 mm ● = 101-200 mm ● = over 200 mm = 0-0.2 inches ● = 0.2-1.2 inches ● = 1.2-2.4 inches ● = 2.5-4 inches ● = 4.1-8 inches ● = over 8 inches

More climate information
Climate figures are very useful but don’t present a general impression of the climate and the eventual weather circumstances within a certain period. The figures don’t always reflect the chance of wintry weather, extreme heat or hurricanes. That is why we offer useful extra climate information for each month of the year:

	chance of (very) hot weather	chance of (very) cool weather	chance of long-term precipitation	chance of hurricanes (cyclones)	chance of sunny days	UV-index
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