Faroe IslandsIsland

Lítla Dímun

0.82 km² of land in the Atlantic Ocean.

N 0.2 km

Peaks

Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

0.82km²

Area

4km

Coastline

414m

Highest point

Rávan

People

10°C

Warmest sea

August

616km

To the mainland

When to go to Lítla Dímun

Good all year round.

The sea is warmest in August (10 °C) and coolest in February (7 °C). The water never reaches 21 °C: bring a wetsuit.

7°7°5°

Jan22

7°7°5°

Feb19

7°7°5°

Mar20

7°8°6°

Apr16

8°8°7°

May14

9°10°9°

Jun12

10°11°10°

Jul15

10°12°11°

Aug15

10°11°10°

Sep18

10°10°8°

Oct20

9°8°7°

Nov21

8°8°6°

Dec22

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Island

Lítla Dímun is an island in Faroe Islands. It covers 0.82 km², with 4 km of coastline. Its highest point, Rávan, rises to 414 m. Nobody lives on it. The nearest mainland is 616 km away.

Getting there

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616 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast

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On the island

What you find on Lítla Dímun.

1named peaksRávan

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 125 m above the sea. 72 % of it is below 200 m.

40 %0–50 m
33 %50–200 m
28 %200–500 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Lítla Dímun1 km²

Alcatraz Island0 km²

0.2 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Month by month

The weather on the island.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon high (°C)	7	7	7	8	8	10	11	12	11	10	8	8
Night low (°C)	5	5	5	6	7	9	10	11	10	8	7	6
Sea (°C)	7	7	7	7	8	9	10	10	10	10	9	8
Rain (mm)	125	96	91	68	67	62	79	90	106	113	110	125
Wet days	22	19	20	16	14	12	15	15	18	20	21	22
Sun h/day	0.0	1.1	2.9	5.0	6.7	6.5	5.6	5.2	3.5	1.7	0.3	0.0
Wind (km/h)	38	37	34	30	26	22	22	23	29	33	35	37

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	−0.1	−0.2	−0.1	+0.2	−0.1	+0.2	+0.1	−0.2	−0.1	+0.2	+0.8	+0.4
2021	+0.2	±0.0	+0.5	+0.3	−0.3	−0.1	+0.1	+0.4	+0.2	+0.1	+0.4	+0.2
2022	±0.0	−0.4	±0.0	+0.2	+0.2	+0.1	−0.1	−0.2	+0.4	+0.5	+0.7	+0.4
2023	+0.1	±0.0	±0.0	+0.3	+0.1	+0.3	+0.4	+0.4	+0.6	+0.4	+0.3	±0.0
2024	+0.2	+0.2	+0.3	+0.4	+0.7	−0.1	+0.1	±0.0	+0.4	+0.2	+0.5	+0.1
2025	+0.1	+0.7	+0.7	+1.1	+1.3	+0.4	+0.8	+1.0	+1.2	+1.4	+1.1	+0.6

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

Stora Dimun houses view to Litla Dimun — EileenSanda · CC BY-SA 4.0

Lítla Dímun 2019 — kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0

Suðuroy.Lítla Dímun,1 — Erik Christensen · CC BY 3.0

Nearby

More islands nearby.

Suðuroy

Faroe Islands164 km²610 m13 km away

Stóra Dímun

Faroe Islands2.7 km²382 m7 km away

Sandoy

Faroe Islands111 km²479 m24 km away

Skúvoy

Faroe Islands10 km²393 m16 km away

Streymoy

Faroe Islands373 km²789 m58 km away

Nólsoy

Faroe Islands10 km²372 m39 km away

Hestur

Faroe Islands5.9 km²421 m37 km away

Vágar

Faroe Islands176 km²722 m58 km away

About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q206928) · CC0
Outline	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Sea temperature	NOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
Climate	NASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Towns	GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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