Nordland · Norway
Where to stay in Bodø
Bodø is a city in Nordland, Norway, home to about 54,000 people. This guide covers 6 hotels in Bodø, with about 685 rooms between them.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 6
- Nearest airport
- BOO2 km · Bodø Airport
- Currency
- NOKNorwegian krone
- Time zone
- Europe/Oslo
- Language
- Bokmål, Norwegian, Nynorsk
About
About Bodø
Bodø (Lule Sami: Bådåddjo, Swedish: Bodö) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Salten.
In the Viking Age, the province was known as Hålogaland, and famous for shipmaking. In 1663, Bodø was mentioned as a village with postal service. In the 19th century, fish canning became an important industry for Bodø, and made the city grow. As Nazi Germany invaded Norway in 1940, they bombed Bodø on May 27, destroying most buildings. The city was rebuilt during and after the war, and therefore looks remarkably modern. In 1960, the American spy plane U-2 heading for Bodø was shot down by the Soviet Union, and Soviet leader Nikita Chrushchev threatened to bomb Bodø.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Where to stay
Places to stay in Bodø
6 places to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay | Rooms |
|---|---|
| Comfort Hotel™ Bodø hotel | 158 |
| Home Hotel Grand Bodø hotel | 100 |
| Quality Hotel™ Ramsalt hotel | 250 |
| Thon Hotel Nordlys hotel | |
| Thon Hotel Skagen hotel | |
| Wood Hotel Bodø hotel | 177 |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Bodø
1 hotel within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Scandic Havet | 0.3 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Bodø
Bodø has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 15 °C; December is the wettest, with about 217 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 Bodø: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Bodø Airport (BOO), about 1.7 km from the city centre in a straight line; Leknes Airport (LKN, 102 km) and Mo i Rana Airport, Røssvoll (MQN, 102 km) are also within reach.
Getting around
Bodø is a long, slender city around 2–3 km in width and over 10 km long in a roughly east-west line. This makes communication by bus well established for a city this size, and during weekdays busses go every fifteen minutes to-and-from town westwards. The Sentrumsrunden bus brings you anywhere you want within the city centre, and there are also buses going northwards to the suburbs. The bus system is zonal, meaning that you pay more the further you are going.
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BOO · Bodø Airport
LKN · Leknes Airport
MQN · Mo i Rana Airport, Røssvoll
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Bodø
Eat
Bodø does not have a great abundance of eateries, but there is a decent selection of cheap restaurants, as well as a couple of good gourmet restaurants.
Drink
There are two Vinmonopolet shops in Bodø, one a short walk from the Glasshuset shopping mall, the other one inside City Nord, another shopping centre a somewhat far from the city centre.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Bodø
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Questions
Bodø: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Bodø?
Bodø has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 15 °C; December is the wettest, with about 217 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Bodø?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Bodø Airport (BOO), about 1.7 km from the city centre in a straight line; Leknes Airport (LKN, 102 km) and Mo i Rana Airport, Røssvoll (MQN, 102 km) are also within reach.
Are there accessible hotels in Bodø?
4 places in this guide list accessible rooms.
What currency is used in Bodø?
Norwegian krone (NOK).
Nearby
Destinations near Bodø
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.