Nordland · Norway

Where to stay in Sortland

Sortland is a city in Nordland, Norway, home to about 6,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Sortland.

Places to stay in this guide
1
Nearest airport
SKN20 km · Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen
Currency
NOKNorwegian krone
Time zone
Europe/Oslo
Language
Bokmål, Norwegian, Nynorsk

About

About Sortland

Sortland (Norwegian) or Suortá (Northern Sami) is a town and the administrative centre of Sortland Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The town is located on the east coast of the island of Langøya, along the Sortlandsundet strait.

Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.

Where to stay

Places to stay in Sortland

1 place to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.

Place to stayType
Thon Hotel Sortland
hotel
hotel

When to go

The best time to visit Sortland

Sortland 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; October is the wettest, with about 175 mm of rain.

-4°13°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec175 mm
Average highAverage lowRain per monthComfortable months

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 Sortland: airports and arrival

The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen (SKN), about 20 km from the city centre in a straight line; Harstad/Narvik Airport (EVE, 56 km) and Svolvær Airport, Helle (SVJ, 59 km) are also within reach.

medium airport

SKN · Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen

20.3 km from the centreICAO ENSK
large airport

EVE · Harstad/Narvik Airport

56.2 km from the centreICAO ENEV
medium airport

SVJ · Svolvær Airport, Helle

59.0 km from the centreICAO ENSH

Questions

Sortland: questions travellers ask

When is the best time to visit Sortland?

Sortland 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; October is the wettest, with about 175 mm of rain.

Which airport is closest to Sortland?

The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen (SKN), about 20 km from the city centre in a straight line; Harstad/Narvik Airport (EVE, 56 km) and Svolvær Airport, Helle (SVJ, 59 km) are also within reach.

What currency is used in Sortland?

Norwegian krone (NOK).

Nearby

Destinations near Sortland

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.