Tromso guide

Welcome to Tromso At a latitude of nearly 70 degrees north, four days’ sailing from Bergen and barely a two-hour flight from Oslo, Murmansk or Longyearbyen, at the same latitude as Alaska and Siberia, between the island landscape, fiords and mountain peaks, you find Tromso – Gateway to the Arctic and capital of Northern Norway. As far back as a century ago, visitors were surprised to find culture, intellectual life and the current fashions so far north, and the city derived the name Paris of the North. That reputation lives on today visitors to Tromso are charmed by the city’s patriotic, loud and obliging residents, by a historical, compact and characteristic city centre, by a live and active cultural life all year round, by the Northern Lights, Polar Nights, Midnight Sun, by the exciting attractions, good possibilities for excursions and widely varying weather. The experience will be complete as soon as you leave the city and visit the 1800m high Lyngen Alps to the east, go on a voyage of discovery out towards the Atlantic Ocean, experience fertile agricultural villages beneath steep mountains and learn more about Norwegian and Saami culture and that of the residents of Finnish origin. Key Facts Tromso is the largest city in the Nordic countries north of the Arctic Circle and is home to the world’s northernmost university, brewery and cathedral. The city lives on education, research, administration, fishing exports and satellite technology. The centre of the north has 64492 residents and the Municipality of Tromso covers an area of 2558 km². Around 50,000 live in the centre of Tromso, while the remainder is scattered throughout the whole municipality. Climate, Midnight Sun and the Polar Nights In spite of their location so far north, Tromso and Lyngen both enjoy a moderate insular climate. Summer weather ranges from five degrees Celsius and rain to 28 degrees and fantastic swimming conditions for the undaunted. Winter in Tromso is not especially cold. The record low temperature in Tromso is minus18 degrees Celsius, while the average January temperature is minus four, but in return there is often a lot of snow. The Midnight Sun is visible from around May 21 to around July 21. Between November 21 and January 21, the sun disappears under the horizon and we experience the Polar Nights. It is not completely dark during the middle of the day, and the light and colour in the sky is amazing when the weather is favourable. Northern Lights The Northern Lights are particles that are hurled into space after storms on the sun’s surface.

They are attracted by the magnetic North Pole, and enter the atmosphere in a ring-like zone around the pole. In a process that is identical to that inside a light tube, the energy is released as light. Tromso is situated right in the centre of the Northern Lights zone and is, therefore, together with the interior ice in Greenland the tundra in northern Canada, among the best places on earth to observe this phenomenon. Most of the Northern Lights outbursts visible from Tromso are green, but large outbursts can also include other colours. In order to see the Northern Lights, it must be dark and clear – the reason that we never see the Northern Lights between May and August. The greatest frequency is between 6pm and 2am. Some visitors prefer to see the performance from a mountain top shielded from the city’s lights, while others are just as impressed right in the city centre.


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    Maratón de Tromso, NOR; Maratón de Sn. Fco, USA; Maratón SSQ de Quebec, CAN; Maratón por la Paz, Moscú, RUS...

    Today, 03:07

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    TODOS ESTOS: Maratón de Tromso, NOR; Maratón de Sn. Fco, USA; Maratón SSQ de Quebec, CAN; Maratón por la Paz, Moscú, RUS...

    Today, 02:57

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    Today, 01:05

  • AstroN8

    @MelroyFan I looked at the flight route yesterday. Pretty crazy! Houston > London > Oslo > Tromso > Longyearbyen. About 24 hrs of travel.

    Today, 00:51

  • JerBear_VS

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    Today, 00:28

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    Damn it, Google Maps, are you going to help me with this, or am I gonna have to go frame-by-frame over Tromso until I find an observatory?

    Today, 00:15

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    Today, 00:14

  • Bhenth

    ....jag sov den dagen rätt länge...på kvällen blev det nattjobb...och dagen efter..igår så blev det en nödvändig tur till Tromsö...

    Today, 00:07

  • OysteinVangsnes

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    Yesterday, 23:54

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    Yesterday, 23:07

  • Orgetorix

    Clinton-besøk i Tromsø rammes av streik - Aftenposten: http://t.co/5FrNY0bQ

    Yesterday, 22:41

  • kepanet

    @aaron97siles @Dav_Vazquez @Alex10_r a vale no lo lo había leído jajaja pero Muniain no marcó al Tromso, sino al Young Boys :)

    Yesterday, 22:30

  • 24isforpartyson

    I've been accepted to Master's degree programme at the University i Tromso. FINALLY \m/

    Yesterday, 21:30

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    Yesterday, 21:29

  • kepanet

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    Yesterday, 21:10

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  • Scandic Tromso
  • Polstjerna
  • Arctic-alpine Botanic garden
  • ABC Hotel Nord
  • Anemone Bed & Breakfast

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