Travel Reference
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Month by Month
TOP EVENTS
Moldejazz
, July
Bergen International Festival
, May
Northern Lights
, January or February
Extreme Sports Festival
, June
Sami Easter week
, March
January
Despite bitterly cold temperatures, January is a popular time for snowmobil-
ing, dog-sledding and seeing the northern lights. By the end of January, the
sun has returned to much of mainland Norway.
Northern Lights
The aurora borealis, one of the natural world's most astonishing phenomena, is reason
enough to visit northern Norway in winter. To combine the experience with more earth-
bound festivities, visit Tromsø in late January for the Northern Lights Festival.
Midwinter Jazz
Held deep in the months-long Arctic night, Svalbard's Polar Jazz festival, the world's north-
ernmost jazz festival, serves as a rhythmic reminder that life continues even in the depths of
the polar winter. Late January or early February.
