Wipe away your winter blues and experience the charm of an Icelandic winter. This volcanic island is filled with vast snow-concealed mountains and hot springs. Located just beneath the Arctic Circle, Iceland has an average winter temperature of around 0 degrees Celsius. These cold temperatures produce the best conditions to view the Northern Lights than anywhere else in the world.
During a clear, icy night you will more than likely be able to see the magic of the Northern Lights dancing across the sky, normally varying in green and greys in colour. Normally visible between September to April, the Aurora Borealis is without a doubt one of the most powerful spectacles in the world.
Luxury Hotel Reykjavik has put together a spectacular Northern Lights package deal that is a must for any thrill seeker. Included is a three-night stay at Hotel Reykjavik, welcome cocktails and breakfast. Also, a professional tour for two people run with experienced guides to search for the Northern Lights. During the tour, you will be driven away form the bright lights of the city to the clear Icelandic countryside.
Hotel Reykjavik is a superior three star hotel offering friendly and attentive service with a calm atmosphere. Boasting 79 comfortable rooms, including suites and family accommodation, they strive to cater for the individual needs of the hotel’s guests.
To arrange booking for the Northern Lights tour, as well as other offers visit www.hotelreykjavik.is
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Well I hope we won’t get into a fight over this, but the implication in “…cold temperatures produce the best conditions to view the Northern Lights anywhere in the world…” is clearly that the coldness is the major factor.
Unfortunately, you can come here for three weeks specially to see the Northern Lights, and be thwarted every single night by cloudy conditions – in the bitterest cold.
I take your point though. It certainly is more likely to be clear when it is very cold in Iceland – but then Iceland is no longer such a cold country in general.
You know I’ve been there all different times of the year. Iceland is a fantastic place to vacation with or without the Northern Lights. It is definately UNIQUE.
The Northern Lights are visible almost every night in Iceland during the winter, evening after evening after evening. They are derived from tiny solar particles that form plasma clouds of electrons and protons, created during electronic storms on the sun. While these are traveling through space, they become trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field and collide with atoms of gases in the upper atmosphere (at an altitude of 100-250 km). These atoms start to glow and then emit bands of light that form the Northern Lights. Northern Lights tours in Iceland are wonderful adventures every time.
A small correction, Wardropper:
The article does infact actual state…
‘These cold temperatures produce the best conditions to view the Northern Lights’
Note: ‘best conditions’, It does not state what you claim.
A small correction, folks:
Cold temperatures have nothing to do with the Northern Lights.
Read up on it. It’s increased activity on the SUN which excites magnetized particles in the high levels of the atmosphere. We only THINK they are related to cold nights, because cold nights tend to be clear nights, thus enabling us to see whatever is going on up there. The Northern Lights are there when it’s cloudy too, just like eclipses of the sun and moon. And we all know what it’s like trying to see a solar eclipse at these latitudes – it’s always cloudy at the crucial time.