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Polar / Midnight Sun in Norway

Norway's polar belt runs from the Arctic Circle to Honningsvåg, the mainland's northernmost town, where midnight sun and polar night trade places. Light is the whole calendar. Tromsø grew on polar expeditions remembered at the Polarmuseet, Hammerfest hosts the Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society, and Bodø takes the ocean weather head-on from its exposed headland.

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Midnight sun May–Jul · Aurora Sep–Apr

When is the best time for northern lights or midnight sun?

They are opposite seasons: aurora needs long darkness, roughly autumn through early spring, with clear inland skies; midnight sun is the weeks around midsummer above the Arctic Circle. The same northern base serves both — but never on one trip.

  1. Nordland · Norway

    Narvik is a fjord port in northern Norway, set in the north-eastern part of Nordland on the Nord-Norge coast.

  2. Troms · Norway

    Tromsø is an Arctic island city on Tromsøya, in the northern part of Troms, in northern Norway.

  3. Finnmark · Norway

    Kirkenes is a border port in Sør-Varanger, near the Russian frontier in northern Norway.

  4. Nordland · Norway

    Bodø is the seat of Nordland, a coastal city in northern Norway set above the Arctic Circle on the Nord-Norge shore.

  5. Nordland · Norway

    Mo i Rana is the administrative centre of Rana, an inland town in the Helgeland region of northern Norway.

  6. Finnmark · Norway

    Hammerfest is a far-northern coastal town in Finnmark, set on the island of Kvaløya in northern Norway.

  7. Møre og Romsdal · Norway

    Ulsteinvik is a town in the south-western part of Møre og Romsdal, in western Norway (Vestlandet), the centre of Ulstein Municipality.

  8. Finnmark · Norway

    Vadsø is the seat of Finnmark, a Kven harbour town on the Varanger coast in northern Norway.

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