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Norway

15 cities in the atlas · 40 airports with scheduled flights

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West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord · Photo: Yorian · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Oslo
Currency: NOK; Norwegian Krone
Local time: Central European Summer TimeUTC+02:00
Calling code: +47
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and F

Facts

Norway in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Oslo
Currency: Norwegian Krone NOKToday's indicative rate: NOK 1 ≈ USD 0.105Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian and Norwegian NynorskOfficial in part of the country: Northern SamiSpoken: Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Northern Sami and Finnish
Time zones: Central European Summer TimeUTC+02:00
Calling code: +47
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and F230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 110fire112police113ambulanceAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 5,610,870 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 324,220 km²
Internet domain: .no
Land borders: Finland Russia Sweden

When to go

Climate across Norway

No single month has more than half of the 4 cities with figures in Norway between 18°C and 32°C with under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Oslo	-3°	-2°	2°	8°	14°	18°	20°	19°	14°	7°	2°	-3°
Bergen	0°	0°	2°	7°	11°	15°	17°	17°	13°	8°	4°	1°
Trondheim	-2°	-1°	1°	6°	11°	15°	18°	17°	13°	7°	2°	-1°
Stavanger	3°	3°	4°	8°	12°	15°	17°	17°	15°	11°	7°	5°
Cities good for going, of 4	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	0

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Norway is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Norway

All 15 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Smaller places with an airport · 11

Airports

Airports in Norway

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Photographs

Norway in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Bergen
Photo: W. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

From the journal

Plan a trip to Norway

Tell us where in Norway, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.

Europe · Northern Europe

Norway

15 cities in the atlas · 40 airports with scheduled flights

Plan a trip to Norway Ask our visa desk

West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord · Photo: Yorian · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Oslo
Currency: NOK; Norwegian Krone
Local time: Central European Summer TimeUTC+02:00
Calling code: +47
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and F

Facts

Norway in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Oslo
Currency: Norwegian Krone NOKToday's indicative rate: NOK 1 ≈ USD 0.105Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian and Norwegian NynorskOfficial in part of the country: Northern SamiSpoken: Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Northern Sami and Finnish
Time zones: Central European Summer TimeUTC+02:00
Calling code: +47
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and F230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 110fire112police113ambulanceAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 5,610,870 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 324,220 km²
Internet domain: .no
Land borders: Finland Russia Sweden

When to go

Climate across Norway

No single month has more than half of the 4 cities with figures in Norway between 18°C and 32°C with under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Oslo	-3°	-2°	2°	8°	14°	18°	20°	19°	14°	7°	2°	-3°
Bergen	0°	0°	2°	7°	11°	15°	17°	17°	13°	8°	4°	1°
Trondheim	-2°	-1°	1°	6°	11°	15°	18°	17°	13°	7°	2°	-1°
Stavanger	3°	3°	4°	8°	12°	15°	17°	17°	15°	11°	7°	5°
Cities good for going, of 4	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	0

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Norway is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Norway

All 15 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Smaller places with an airport · 11

Airports

Airports in Norway

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Photographs

Norway in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Bergen
Photo: W. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

From the journal

Plan a trip to Norway

Tell us where in Norway, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

Plan a trip to Norway All countries

Sources for this page

All sources and licences

OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.

Norway

Norway in figures

Climate across Norway

Where Norway is

Cities in Norway

Airports in Norway

Large airports

Norway in pictures

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