Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands are the small country between the two big ones, and on this site they exist because they sit on the way to Iceland: the Norröna calls at Tórshavn between Hirtshals and Seyðisfjörður, and the summer timetable turns that call into a three-night stop. On their own they are a one-week walking country with a car; combined, they are the part of a fortnight that is not about driving.

#Getting there

From Denmark: Atlantic Airways and SAS fly Copenhagen–Vágar all year, and Smyril Line's Norröna sails Hirtshals–Tórshavn all year, twice a week in summer and once a week otherwise (Sailing Schedule 2027). From Iceland: the Norröna from Seyðisfjörður in the Iceland season, late March to late November, and Atlantic Airways' seasonal Keflavík–Vágar flights (days: check atlanticairways.com). From Norway: Atlantic Airways has flown Bergen and Oslo in season; check the current timetable. From Sweden, Finland and Greenland: through Copenhagen. Vágar airport is 47 km from Tórshavn by road through the Vágatunnilin, an hour's drive.

#Car, ferry or flight

A car, hired at Vágar or in Tórshavn. The main islands are joined by bridges and four sub-sea tunnels, so a single base in Tórshavn reaches Vágar, Streymoy, Eysturoy, the Norðoyar and now Sandoy without a ferry. Suðuroy is a two-hour car ferry (Strandfaraskip Landsins, ssl.fo) and Mykines a summer passenger boat. Bringing your own car on the Norröna only makes sense if you are also taking it to Iceland and sailing home again. Buses run between the towns but not to the places the routes on this site go.

#Money

The Faroese króna is Danish kroner with Faroese notes, at par; Danish notes are accepted everywhere and cards almost everywhere. Fuel is sold by Magn and Effo at posted national prices; Magn's price list gave 15.75 kr per litre for 95 E10 on 23 October 2026. Accommodation is upper band and scarce in July; food is upper-mid. The tunnel tolls are the fees to know: Tunnil's list gives 175 kr one-way without a subscription for the Eysturoyartunnilin and Sandoyartunnilin, 50 kr for the Norðoyatunnilin and Vágatunnilin, the last two charged in one direction, billed by number-plate camera and passed on by the hire firm.

#Driving rules

The Ferðslulógin, the Faroese Road Traffic Act on logir.fo, sets 50 km/h in built-up areas and 80 km/h outside, and local limits may only lower the 50. Roads are good tarmac, narrow in the villages, with single-track sections and passing bays, and several old single-lane tunnels on the northern islands where one direction has priority and the other pulls into the passing bays marked M. Sheep are on the road everywhere; a collision is reported to the police and is the driver's problem. Landsverk, the road authority, posts conditions and closures; winter closures of the mountain roads are short and frequent.

#Seasons

May to September is the season for the boats, the puffins and the long light; the Norröna's Iceland call runs late March to late November; winter is dark, wet and windy, with the mountain roads closing in storms and the islands best treated as a two-day stop from Copenhagen. The season planner has the month-by-month detail.

#Its journeys

Iceland and the Faroe Islands by ferry, 12 days, which gives the islands three nights on the summer timetable; and the comparison Faroe Islands or Iceland for one week, which is the question most readers arrive with.