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Best time to visit Ålesund
Norway · Europe
All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.
The year in Ålesund
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- JanJÅlesund in January: avoid
- FebFÅlesund in February: avoid
- MarMÅlesund in March: avoid
- AprAÅlesund in April: sweet spot
- MayMÅlesund in May: ok, busy
- JunJÅlesund in June: sweet spot, busy
- JulJÅlesund in July: sweet spot, busy
- AugAÅlesund in August: avoid
- SepSÅlesund in September: avoid
- OctOÅlesund in October: avoid
- NovNÅlesund in November: avoid
- DecDÅlesund in December: avoid
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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Things to do in Ålesund
- Jugendstilsenteret Museum in Ålesund, Norway
- The Atlantic Sea-Park Salt water aquarium.
- Giske Church Church in Giske, Norway
- Ålesund church Ålesund church is a fine masonry building covered in marble of different colors.
- Alnes Lighthouse Lighthouse in Norway
- Borgund Church in Ålesund Church building in Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
- Tverrfjellet Mountain in Sula, Norway
Tours and tickets in Ålesund
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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Ålesund), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.
Month by month
| Month | Max °C | Rain days | Humidity | Sun h/day | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 3° | 16d | 79% | 1.7h | avoid | monsoon: 16 rainy days, 207mm |
| Feb | 4° | 14d | 76% | 4.1h | avoid | bitter cold: 4C daily max |
| Mar | 6° | 16d | 74% | 6.1h | avoid | 6C max, 16 rainy days |
| Apr | 9° | 12d | 73% | 9.3h | sweet spot | 9C max, 12 rainy days |
| May | 13° | 12d | 75% | 10.8h | okbusy | busier than usual |
| Jun | 16° | 15d | 78% | 10.9h | sweet spot busy | busier than usual |
| Jul | 17° | 14d | 82% | 11.2h | sweet spot busy | busier than usual |
| Aug | 17° | 16d | 82% | 8.6h | avoid | monsoon: 16 rainy days, 193mm |
| Sep | 15° | 18d | 82% | 6.9h | avoid | monsoon: 18 rainy days, 237mm |
| Oct | 10° | 19d | 82% | 4.3h | avoid | monsoon: 19 rainy days, 277mm |
| Nov | 6° | 15d | 80% | 2.7h | avoid | 6C max, 15 rainy days |
| Dec | 4° | 18d | 81% | 1.0h | avoid | monsoon: 18 rainy days, 217mm |
Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.
Weather read at the Art Nouveau centre, 10 km from the airport (AES): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.
How busy it gets
Then and now
Ålesund's June days now average 16.1°C, 3.2°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 9 of 12 months are clearly warmer.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981–90 | 0.6° | 1.8° | 3.5° | 6.1° | 11.1° | 12.8° | 14.9° | 14.8° | 12.2° | 9.0° | 4.1° | 2.0° |
| 2017–26 | 2.8° | 3.9° | 6.2° | 9.2° | 12.7° | 16.1° | 17.4° | 16.9° | 14.9° | 10.4° | 6.1° | 3.7° |
| Change | +2.2° | +2.2° | +2.7° | +3.2° | +1.6° | +3.2° | +2.6° | +2.1° | +2.7° | +1.4° | +2.0° | +1.7° |
The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.
Getting there
How far Ålesund is depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.
- from Oslo
- from Stockholm
- from Copenhagen
- from Edinburgh
- from Glasgow
- from Hamburg
- from Helsinki
- from Manchester
Open in Rome2rio for every way from to Ålesund, flying or not.
Before you go
Type C and F plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Norwegian krone. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise normal security precautions. US State Department: Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions. Everything for Norway: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
Being there
On arrival
- Paying — Visa and Mastercard are taken almost everywhere, usually by tapping, and you can go days without cash; Vipps, the local payment app, needs a Norwegian bank account. Staffed shops must still accept cash for sums up to 20,000 kroner.
- UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
- Tipping — Not expected: in restaurants round up, and 10% is generous. Taxi drivers do not expect a tip.
Getting around Ålesund
- Apps — Rides: Bolt, Norgestaxi, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: Messenger.
Ålesund is long and narrow, stretching from west to east over five islands, with the old city centre on the western end near the Atlantic. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on Ålesund, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Help
- Emergency — police 112 · ambulance 113 · fire 110.
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.
Your embassy — : how to reach your embassy or consulate abroad. A guess from your city, : a city is not a passport.
Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.
Sources (19)
- gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/norway/getting-help
- ruter.no/en/about-our-tickets/tourist-ticket
- ruter.no/en/about-our-tickets/single-ticket
- ruter.no/en/about-our-tickets/season-ticket
- ruter.no/en/about-our-tickets/buy-tickets-here
- avinor.no/en/airport/oslo/info/public-transportation
- norges-bank.no/en/topics/notes-and-coins/the-right-to-pay-cash
- bolt.eu/en/cities/oslo
- uber.com/global/en/cities/oslo
- norgestaxi.no
- apps.apple.com/no/app/norgestaxi/id530488364
- sinch.com/blog/most-popular-messaging-apps-by-country
- linkmobility.com/blog/the-most-popular-messaging-apps-across-the-globe
- en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Oslo
- en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Norway
- developers.google.com/maps/coverage
- apple.com/ios/feature-availability
- pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2286608
- rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/AnnualReport/PDFs/09PAYMENT290526C6588B796E664822A2BD0DEB6452CAD4.PDF
Ålesund in pictures
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Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What Ålesund is like
Ålesund is the largest city in Møre og Romsdal county, West Norway, with about 53,000 inhabitants, 66,000 in the surrounding area (2018). Ålesund is the gateway to the iconic northwestern fjords (among which Geirangerfjord is particularly famous) and surrounding alpine mountains. More on Wikivoyage
- Worth seeing
- Much of the joy of seeing Ålesund is to be found in just strolling past the many art nouveau shops and other buildings. Aalesunds Museum, Rasmus Rønnebergs gate 16. More on Wikivoyage
- Worth doing
- Mt Aksla and Fjellstua (Walk, taxi or sightseeing bus/tram). More on Wikivoyage
- Getting in
- Ålesund Airport, Vigra (AES IATA). It is connected to Ålesund by underwater tunnels. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on Ålesund, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.
Around Ålesund
Also in Norway
- Bergen best May, Jun, Jul
- Lofoten best Jun, Jul, Aug
- Oslo best May, Jun, Jul
- Stavanger best Apr, Jun, Jul
- Svalbard best Jul, Aug
- Tromsø best Jun, Jul, Aug
- Trondheim best May, Jun, Jul
Nearby
- Shetland United Kingdom · 467 km
- Gothenburg Sweden · 620 km
- Orkney United Kingdom · 629 km
- The Faroe Islands Faroe Islands · 670 km
Kind of place
Ålesund is in Norway, Europe. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.
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