{"id":918,"date":"2019-11-07T12:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T12:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/?post_type=artikler&p=684"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:22:07","slug":"alta-a-northern-lights-city-with-good-winter-weather","status":"publish","type":"artikler","link":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/artikkel\/alta-a-northern-lights-city-with-good-winter-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Alta is the northern lights city with great winter weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\tThe first scientific observations of the northern lights were made in Alta, and with its dry climate, Alta is one of the best places to see them. Add a unique hotel made of snow, plenty of dogsledding opportunities and the Sami culture, and you have a winter holiday like no other.\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n

When modern research into the northern lights started in the 1830s, Alta was the centre of all the activity. Thanks to a dry and stable climate, the northern lights were observed and measured, and the phenomenon was surveyed. In 1899, the world’s first northern lights observatory was built on Haldde mountain. So it is with good reason that Alta can call itself the City of Northern Lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hunt the northern lights in Alta <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alta is an extremely good base to hunt for the northern lights. Mobile northern lights hunters take you where they believe there is the best chance of clear skies, either into the Altadalen valley, up on the plateau or out along the coast. There are also courses in northern lights photography. You can stay in the igloo hotel in Sorrisniva, or take part in activities like dogsledding, snowmobile trips and fatbike trips in the evening, when there will be nothing between you and the sky if the northern lights should appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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