East Iceland · Iceland

Seyðisfjörður fjord

Narrow fjord over the Fjarðarheiði pass from Egilsstaðir; the mountain walls hide stray light, so walk to the dark shore beyond the harbour and look up the fjord.

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“The reflection of a snowy mountain village (Unsplash)” by Sveinn Birkir Björnsson sveinnbirkir, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).

Why it works for the aurora

View: Overhead and east (steep fjord walls).
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 22 km by road from the middle of East Iceland (estimate), roughly 26 min by car.
Coordinates: 65.2600, -14.0100 · 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.