Møre og Romsdal · Norway
Where to stay in Kristiansund
Kristiansund is a city in Møre og Romsdal, Norway, home to about 24,000 people. This guide covers 4 hotels in Kristiansund, with about 280 rooms between them.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 4
- Nearest airport
- KSU5 km · Kristiansund Airport, Kvernberget
- Currency
- NOKNorwegian krone
- Time zone
- Europe/Oslo
- Language
- Bokmål, Norwegian, Nynorsk
About
About Kristiansund
Kristiansund is a municipality on the western coast of Norway in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Kristiansund (established in 1742), which is the major town for the whole Nordmøre region.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Kristiansund
See
- Kristiansund Opera House
- Innlandet
- Sundbåtene
- Grip
Do
- Vanndamman
- Sundbåten
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Kristiansund
4 places to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
When to go
The best time to visit Kristiansund
Kristiansund has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 17 °C; December is the wettest, with about 197 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 Kristiansund: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Kristiansund Airport, Kvernberget (KSU), about 4.7 km from the city centre in a straight line; Molde Airport, Årø (MOL, 47 km) and Ålesund Airport (AES, 103 km) are also within reach.
Getting around
Nettbuss Møre's blue, local buses have frequent departures from Kristiansund Trafikkterminal to the different parts and suburbs of the city. The price for a one-way ticket lies between kr 15 and kr 30, depending on your destination. The four main island of which the city of Kristiansund is built on is also connected by a passenger ferry-system, the "Sundbåt", that carries passengers between all the four islands with departures every 20 minutes. This is also the world's oldest public transport line in continuous operation.
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KSU · Kristiansund Airport, Kvernberget
MOL · Molde Airport, Årø
AES · Ålesund Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Kristiansund
Eat
In the heart of the city, try the "fishan" - which is really an old version of the English "fish and chips"-treat. The name "fishan" is a very local abbreviation of the English name.
Drink
There is a large variety of bars, night clubs and such in Kristiansund. Night clubs are usually open between 23:00 and 03:00, while the opening hours for bars varies. Some bars are open even in daytime. Most places require that you are 20 years or older, but since the legal drinking age in Norway is 18, it varies from place to place. Do note that many night clubs practise ID-validation, meaning that you will have to carry an ID to be permitted access. Valid forms of ID include Norwegian bank cards, European standardized driving licences or ID cards and passports.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Kristiansund
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Questions
Kristiansund: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Kristiansund?
Kristiansund has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 17 °C; December is the wettest, with about 197 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Kristiansund?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Kristiansund Airport, Kvernberget (KSU), about 4.7 km from the city centre in a straight line; Molde Airport, Årø (MOL, 47 km) and Ålesund Airport (AES, 103 km) are also within reach.
Are there accessible hotels in Kristiansund?
1 place in this guide list accessible rooms.
What currency is used in Kristiansund?
Norwegian krone (NOK).
Nearby
Destinations near Kristiansund
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.