East Iceland · Iceland
Borgarfjörður eystri
Small village at the end of Road 94, about 70 km from Egilsstaðir, whose mountains frame a wide dark bay; a quiet aurora spot once the summer puffin season is over.
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Why it works for the aurora
- View
- North (open bay).
- Darkness
- Dark sky, grade 1 on a scale from 0 (darkest) to 5. Little artificial light; a good place for faint aurora and the Milky Way.
- Aurora
- Near the edge of the auroral oval: aurora on most active nights, low in the northern sky on quiet ones.
Getting there
- Distance
- About 49 km by road from the middle of East Iceland (estimate), roughly 57 min by car.
- Coordinates
- 65.5250, -13.8100 · Open in OpenStreetMap
Before you go
Dress for standing still in the cold, bring a head torch with a red light, and park only where parking is allowed. A forecast is guidance, not a promise: check the road and weather warnings for Iceland before a night drive. See our winter safety note.
Spot information from east.is.