Guides and notes from the road
Travel guides to Iceland and the North, and dated notes on what changed on the roads, the ferries and the prices.
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1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readBest time to visit Iceland: a monthly scorecard with the numbersTwelve months scored on daylight, warmth, rain, sunshine, aurora dark hours, highland roads, puffins, whales and the ferry, computed or read 1 November 2026.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readChristmas and New Year in Iceland: what is open, day by day23 December to 1 January 2027 in one grid: pool hours, lagoon and Volcano Express closures, sunrise, sunset and the Christmas Eve full moon, as of 1 Nov 2026.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readCopenhagen on a stopover: what to do, in minutes from the metroThe airport metro is 12–15 minutes and 30 kr to Kongens Nytorv; from there Nyhavn is 6 minutes on foot and Tivoli 19. Ten sights timed, with what each costs.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readDaylight on the 15th: the month the Ring Road stops being saneReykjavík daylight on the 15th of each month of 2027, computed with the NOAA formula, against the 330 km day the Ring Road ledger needs. The line falls in November.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readDaylight scorecard 2027 for four Iceland townsDaylight on the 1st and 15th of each month of 2027 for Reykjavík, Akureyri, Egilsstaðir and Ísafjörður, computed with NOAA's equations, and the months each ledger fits.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readGreenland: what you can actually do, month by monthNo roads between towns, so every activity starts at a harbour, a runway or the 25 km ice-sheet track. Operator months and prices read 1 November 2026, with the light.
1 Nov 2026 · 6 min readIce caves and glaciers in Iceland: which tour, which month, what lightKatla, Vatnajökull and Langjökull caves, glacier walks and snowmobiles priced on 1 November 2026, with a grid of which Katla departures come back before sunset, Nov–Mar.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readIceland in summer: the windows that open, and the light that staysPuffins, highland roads, boats, caves and late lagoons, each with the dates its operator or agency prints, plus midnight-sun daylight and summer temperatures, computed.
1 Nov 2026 · 6 min readIceland in winter: what is open, what closes, how much lightNovember 2026 to March 2027 in dated switches: boats, caves, ferries, tyres and holidays, read on operators' and agencies' pages on 1 Nov 2026, daylight computed.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readKeflavík to the first bed: the honest sleep town by landing hourFirst-day sums for the 7- and 5-day ledgers by landing hour: 90 minutes to the wheel, ledger minutes, and sunset at Vík computed for 15 June, September and December.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readKiruna to Abisko: train or car, in the dark months94 km on the E10 or 1 h 45 by train. Abisko has no sunrise from 6 December to 6 January and 2 h 52 of sun on 15 January, computed; blasting shuts both 05:30–07:30.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readLapland in winter: what to do in Rovaniemi, Jukkasjärvi and AbiskoHusky rides, the Icehotel, the Aurora Sky Station and the Arctic Circle line, with the drives between three bases and their computed sun, December to March.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readLofoten in winter: the E10, the Bodø ferry and three hours of lightReine has 3 h 15 min of sun on 15 January 2027, computed, and none from 10 December to 2 January. The Bodø ferry's winter sailings, and a February week against Iceland.
1 Nov 2026 · 6 min readNorthern lights in Iceland: the moonless weeks of winter 2026–27When to go, where to stand and what a tour costs, with every new and full moon from November 2026 to April 2027 and the hours of true darkness in Reykjavík, computed.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readRovaniemi or Tromsø for the lights: dark hours and cloud, scoredDark hours, sun below −6°, computed for the 15th of each month at Rovaniemi, Tromsø and Reykjavík, with what the met offices publish on cloud. A score with its blanks.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readThe best month for the lights, with the formulaDark hours (sun below −6°, computed) times the clear-sky fraction from Veðurstofa's 1991–2020 cloud record, for Reykjavík and Akureyri. December wins; it ignores the sun.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readThe Golden Circle fact sheet: leg by leg, in km, minutes and krónurReykjavík to Þingvellir, Geysir, Gullfoss, Kerið and back: 241.6 km, 180 minutes at legal speed in summer, 245 in winter, 9,882 ISK for two at 1 November 2026 prices.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readThe longest leg in every ledger against daylight, month by monthEach ledger's longest day against computed daylight at its midpoint on the 15th of each month, one hour's margin. Three fail only in December; four more fail January.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readThings to do in Tromsø in winter, timed against the lightDog sleds, the aurora bus, Fjellheisen, Polaria and the Arctic Cathedral, set against Tromsø's computed light on 15 January 2027: 38 minutes of sun, 5 h 52 of twilight.
1 Nov 2026 · 6 min readYour first day in Reykjavík after the flight: what is still openLand at Keflavík, reach Harpa about 2 h 20 min later, and see what is open: a landing-hour grid with pools, Volcano Express, Perlan and museums, and computed sunsets.