Norway
Northern lights in Lyngenfjord
7 viewing spots around Lyngenfjord, chosen for a dark sky and an open view. For each one: how dark it is, which way it looks, where to park and how to get there. Under the auroral oval: aurora can be overhead even on quiet nights.
- Viewing spots
- 7
- Dark or very dark
- 5
- Magnetic latitude
- 67.0°
- Clearest dark month
- September 22 % of hours clear or partly clear
Which of these spots is clear tonight, and when? Aurora Atlas scores every spot hour by hour from the cloud forecast, darkness, the moon and live aurora activity, with road notices.
See tonight's live scores for Lyngenfjord in Aurora AtlasViewing spots
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Reisadalen · valley road
Broad river valley south of Storslett leading into Reisa National Park; inland, so often clearer than the coast.
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Nordnes rest area · E6 Kåfjord
Rest area with toilets on the E6 along the dry inner Lyngenfjord (Skibotn gets ~300 mm a year): an official place to…
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Spåkenes · Rotsund headland
Headland with a lighthouse and the remains of a WWII coastal fort on the E6/Rv866 side of the fjord mouth, facing the…
- Lenangsøyra · north tip of the Lyngen peninsula Flat coastal plain at the very end of the road on the Lyngen peninsula, open to the north over the sea; Visit…
- Sørelva rest area · E6 Rotsund Statens vegvesen main rest area (built 2019) on the E6 at Ravelseidet, Nordreisa, with toilets, shelters and a picnic…
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Innereidet car park · Nord-Lenangen
Gravel car park at Innereidet on Lenangsveien near Nord-Lenangen, at the northern end of the Lyngen peninsula.
- Galgo rest area · E8 (Norway) Main Statens vegvesen rest area with toilets on the open plateau just across the Norwegian border from Kilpisjärvi…
Drive times are estimates from the middle of Lyngenfjord by straight-line distance, as the app estimates them before it knows your route; ferries and winter closures are not counted.
Good to know in Lyngenfjord
- Skibotn sits in a rain shadow The Lyngen Alps and the big outer islands shield the inner fjord from Atlantic weather, so Skibotn gets only about 300 mm of precipitation a year. When Tromsø is cloudy, the inner Lyngenfjord is often a good bet. Source
- Cloudy by the coast? Drive inland Visit Lyngenfjord’s advice when the coast is cloudy is to head up the valleys, towards Skibotndalen or Reisadalen, and to look for a spot with an open view north. Source