Norway travel destination inquiries

The ideal time for us was the change of seasons, say Sept-Oct or April-May. We have been to Norway several times and the highlights for us were cruises along the Fjords, the Greinger in particular, a visit to the viking ship museum in Oslo, the 'Norway in a Nutshell' tour from Bergen, our visit and tour of the composer Grieg's house in Bergen, the 12 day 'Hurtigruten' cruise from Bergen and our visit to the Lofoten Islands up north. We did find it as undoubtly the most seanic place on the planet.

May/june is a great time to visit Norway. April is still kind of cold (you'll have to wear a coat, at least some days), but May is warmer and you might catch the first summer days. If you're planning on going to the northern parts of Norway, remember that the often have snow in May as well. If you want to go hiking in the mountains, you should wait until july/august to make sure that the snow is all melted.

Hope this helps.

1. When would be a good time to travel in Norway? I don't mind cool weather but would prefer not travelling in snow or with winter coats.
   May-August. It doesn't get dark, it's not really warm though, maybe around 15 or 20 degrees during the day. Some rain but never heavy. Snow in the mountains all summer. I'm talking about Northern Norway here. So, that's our summer.

2. Any particular suggestions on where to go in Norway?
   Oslo and Tromso.

Of course Norway covers a lot of territory, it has the longest coastline of any country in Europe. In April or October you may require some sort of winter wear up North say in Bodo, but down South in Stavanger i would doubt it, i was generalising in my comments, OK? And we did find it best to travel in that sort of time frame because it was out of the prime tourist season, and i did think that is what the OP asked for opinions on what was the best time to travel, and just not when the weather is best?

1. Where to begin? Bergen. The Barony of Rosendal in Hardanger. Preikestolen and/or Kjerag in Lysefjord. Stavanger. The beaches of Jæren. One or more of the small towns on the south coast (Mandal, Lillesand, Grimstad). And that's just one (small) corner of the country.

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@strauss1944

In April or October you may require some sort of winter wear up North say in Bodo, but down South in Stavanger i would doubt it, i was generalising in my comments, OK?

I grew up just outside Stavanger. October = howling winds and p*ssing rains. You might not need winter clothes, but you certainly need waterproof garments aplenty.

Are you seriously saying that every day i October in Stavanger has howling winds and it's pissing rain? In the city you may well experience those conditions, but every day?

@strauss1944

No, of course not, but that's the kind of weather you must expect if visiting not only Stavanger, but any part of the west coast at that time of year. Maybe you went there and had sunshine throughout, in which case you were very lucky, which is nice.

W.

Cheers walkin', but i did think that Bergen was the rain capital of Norway!