Finnmark · Norway
Where to stay in Alta
Alta is a city in Finnmark, Norway, home to about 22,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Alta.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Nearest airport
- ALF4 km · Alta Airport
- Currency
- NOKNorwegian krone
- Time zone
- Europe/Oslo
- Language
- Bokmål, Norwegian, Nynorsk
About
About Alta
Alta is the largest populated municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Alta.
The town centre stretches over a relatively wide area. Elvebakken area near the river mouth is also home to the airport that is virtually in the centre. The second historical part of the centre is Bossekop (Sami: Bossugohppi). A new centre has emerged between the two. The tourist information seems to move around on a daily basis, so the first thing you might do is wind up travelling all over Alta looking for it. As of 2012, the information centre was in the Nordlys hotel, on the left, just as you enter town from the south (information signs may point to centres that have closed).
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Alta
See
- Prehistoric rock carvings
Do
- Raipas
- GLØD
- Horisont Husky AS
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Alta
1 place to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay |
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| Thon Hotel Alta hotel |
When to go
The best time to visit Alta
Alta has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 16 °C; July is the wettest, with about 67 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Alta: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Alta Airport (ALF), about 3.9 km from the city centre in a straight line; Lakselv Airport, Banak (LKL, 66 km) and Hammerfest Airport (HFT, 81 km) are also within reach.
Getting around
Alta is not a large city, but distances inside it are larger than might be expected. E6 is 12 km long inside the densely populated area.
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ALF · Alta Airport
LKL · Lakselv Airport, Banak
HFT · Hammerfest Airport
Questions
Alta: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Alta?
Alta has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 16 °C; July is the wettest, with about 67 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Alta?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Alta Airport (ALF), about 3.9 km from the city centre in a straight line; Lakselv Airport, Banak (LKL, 66 km) and Hammerfest Airport (HFT, 81 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Alta?
Norwegian krone (NOK).
Nearby
Destinations near Alta
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.