Faroe Islands, month by month
Daylight is computed for Tórshavn on the 15th; roads, ferries and prices are the planner's sourced notes. See the country page for how to get there.
The twelve rows
| Month | Daylight (15th) | Roads | Ferries | Prices | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6 h 10 min (09:32–15:41) | All roads and tunnels open; mountain roads (Norðradalsskarð, Eiði–Gjógv, the Viðareiði road) close for hours in storms, status on landsverk.fo | Norröna Hirtshals–Tórshavn weekly: Sun 15.00 from Hirtshals, Tórshavn Tue 07.30; return Fri 20.00; no Iceland sailing 1 Jan–27 Mar (Smyril Line 2027) | Low season; hotels at their cheapest | Wind and rain; the boats to Mykines and the Vestmanna cliffs do not run |
| February | 8 h 57 min (08:13–17:10) | As January; snow on the passes after fronts, cleared quickly | As January; no Iceland sailing | Low season | Aurora possible on clear nights at 62°N but cloud is the norm |
| March | 11 h 44 min (06:44–18:28) | Open; occasional snow closures on the high roads | Weekly to 27 Mar; from 28 Mar the Iceland call resumes: Tórshavn Tue 13.00, Seyðisfjörður Wed 09.00 (Smyril Line 2027) | Low season until Easter | First month a Faroes–Iceland sea combination is possible |
| April | 14 h 48 min (05:03–19:51) | Open | Weekly Hirtshals–Tórshavn–Seyðisfjörður (one sailing a week, so a Faroes stop is seven nights) | Shoulder | Puffins return to Mykines late in the month; the boat starts in May (operator: check) |
| May | 17 h 42 min (03:33–21:14) | Open | Weekly to 28 May; from 29 May the summer timetable: Hirtshals Sat and Tue, Tórshavn–Seyðisfjörður Wed 18.00 (Smyril Line 2027) | Shoulder rising to high by the end of the month | The best balance of light, boats and beds |
| June | 19 h 41 min (02:37–22:18) | Open; village car parks full by midday at Saksun and Gásadalur | Summer timetable: twice weekly Denmark–Faroes, weekly to Iceland; the three-night Faroes stop is possible | High; Tórshavn hotels full on cruise days | Vestmanna and Mykines boats daily, weather permitting |
| July | 18 h 45 min (03:10–21:56) | Open; the Saksun and Gásadalur roads busy | Summer timetable | High; book beds months ahead | Ólavsøka, 28–29 July, fills Tórshavn |
| August | 16 h 00 min (04:32–20:31) | Open | Summer timetable | High, easing in the last week | Puffins leave Mykines mid-month; still the best walking month |
| September | 12 h 58 min (05:53–18:51) | Open; first autumn storms | Summer timetable to 5 Sep, then weekly with the Iceland call (Tórshavn Tue 13.00) until 20 Nov | Shoulder | Quiet, green and wet; boats finish for the season (operators: check) |
| October | 10 h 02 min (07:12–17:14) | Open; mountain roads close in gales | Weekly with Iceland call | Low | Short days, big seas on the crossing |
| November | 7 h 06 min (08:39–15:44) | Open; frequent short closures on the passes | Weekly with Iceland call to 20 Nov; from 21 Nov Denmark–Faroes only, Tórshavn arr Tue 07.30, dep Fri 20.00 (Smyril Line 2027) | Low | Last Iceland sailing of the year on 16 Nov from Tórshavn |
| December | 5 h 13 min (09:46–14:59) | Open; storm closures | Denmark–Faroes weekly; no Iceland sailing | Low except Christmas week | Tórshavn's lights and the ship's Christmas timetable; nothing else is open |
How to read the rows
The Faroes have two calendars: the weather's, which is wet in every month and windiest from October to March, and the Norröna's, which decides whether the islands can be combined with Iceland at all. The ferry calendar is the one this planner is built on, from Smyril Line's published 2027 schedule, because it is the only part of a Faroese year that can be stated to the hour.
The ferry year
From 1 January to 27 March and from 21 November to 31 December the Norröna sails only between Hirtshals and Tórshavn, once a week: out of Hirtshals Sunday 15.00, into Tórshavn Tuesday 07.30, back out of Tórshavn Friday 20.00. There is no Iceland call, so a winter Faroes trip is a Danish round trip or a flight to Vágar.
From 28 March to 28 May and from 6 September to 20 November the ship adds Iceland on the same weekly rhythm: Tórshavn Tuesday 13.00 to Seyðisfjörður Wednesday 09.00, back Thursday 20.00 to Tórshavn Friday 16.00. One sailing a week means a Faroes stop on the way to Iceland is seven nights or none.
From 29 May to 5 September the summer timetable has two departures from Hirtshals, Saturday and Tuesday, and the Iceland sailing leaves Tórshavn on Wednesday at 18.00. That is the pattern that allows the three-night Faroes stop in this site's 12-day journey, and it is the reason the journey's default date is in June.
Roads
Every road and tunnel is open all year; the Faroes have no seasonal road in the Icelandic or Norwegian sense. What closes is the high ground in storms, for hours rather than days: the mountain road over to Norðradalur, the Eiði–Gjógv road, the road out to Viðareiði. Landsverk posts closures and conditions, and in winter it is worth reading before a day on the northern islands. The sub-sea tunnels are tolled all year at the same rates, on Tunnil's list.
Light
Tórshavn at 62°N has about five hours of daylight in mid-December and nearly twenty in mid-June, computed with the NOAA formula; there is no polar night and no midnight sun, only the long blue evenings of June and the long dim afternoons of December. The site computes the figure for any date you pick on a route.
Boats and birds
The Mykines passenger boat and the Vestmanna cliff boats run in the summer months and are the first thing the weather cancels; dates and sailings are the operators' and change year to year. Puffins are on Mykines from late April to mid-August. The Suðuroy car ferry runs all year.
Prices
Beds are the constraint. Tórshavn has few hotels and they fill in June, July and August and on any day a cruise ship is in; prices follow. The low months, November to March, are the cheapest and the darkest. The shoulder months, May and September, are the planner's answer for a party that wants light and a bed without a fight, with the ferry pattern deciding which of the two works for an Iceland combination.
Journeys in Faroe Islands
- Iceland and the Faroe Islands by ferry, 12 days
Copenhagen to Hirtshals, two nights on the Norröna, three days of Faroese roads, then Seyðisfjörður to Keflavík by north and south: 2,519 km, 36 h driving, 47 h at sea.
12 days · Iceland + Faroe Islands + Denmark2,519 km · 36 h 05 driving · 47 h 30 ferryChecked 1 Nov 2026