Finnmark · Norway
Where to stay in Hammerfest
Hammerfest is a city in Finnmark, Norway, home to about 11,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Hammerfest.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Nearest airport
- HFT2 km · Hammerfest Airport
- Currency
- NOKNorwegian krone
- Time zone
- Europe/Oslo
- Language
- Bokmål, Norwegian, Nynorsk
About
About Hammerfest
Hammerfest is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality being the town of Hammerfest which is considered the northernmost town in the world with more than 5,000 inhabitants.
Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Where to stay
Places to stay in Hammerfest
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 Hammerfest hotel |
When to go
The best time to visit Hammerfest
Hammerfest has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 15 °C; December is the wettest, with about 95 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 Hammerfest: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Hammerfest Airport (HFT), about 1.9 km from the city centre in a straight line; Alta Airport (ALF, 77 km) and Lakselv Airport, Banak (LKL, 82 km) are also within reach.
HFT · Hammerfest Airport
ALF · Alta Airport
LKL · Lakselv Airport, Banak
Questions
Hammerfest: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Hammerfest?
Hammerfest has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 15 °C; December is the wettest, with about 95 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Hammerfest?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Hammerfest Airport (HFT), about 1.9 km from the city centre in a straight line; Alta Airport (ALF, 77 km) and Lakselv Airport, Banak (LKL, 82 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Hammerfest?
Norwegian krone (NOK).
Nearby
Destinations near Hammerfest
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.