SOME FACTS ABOUT CLIMATE, NATURE AND POPULATION

  • Kirkenes has 3500 inhabitants, the municipality of Sør-Varanger has 10.000 inhabitants
  • Sør-Varanger shares a border with both Russia and Finland
  • Our main business sectores: Tourism, Kimek Ship Yard, business with Russia, hospital, military base (GSV)
  • The Midnight Sun shines in Kirkenes is from 17 May to 21 July.
  • The Polar Night season in Kirkenes is from 21 November to 21 January.
  • Compared with other costal destinations in Norway, Kirkenes has a dry climate with low precipitation year-round.
  • Northern lights can be seen from September until end of March. If you are lucky they will appear but it has to be dark and clear sky.
  • The municipality is important from a geological perspective as the place in Norway with the oldest bedrock (approx. 2.8 billion years old).
  • The area around Kirkenes has Norway’s largest brown bear population with around 40 individuals registered (2015).
  • The average temperature in July is 10 °C, while the average temperature in January is -13 °C.
  • The record low temperature in Kirkenes is -42 °C, while the record high is 30.3 °C.
  • Sør-Varanger has a National Parc in the upper Pasvik Valley: Øvre Pasvik Nationalparc. The Visitor Center for the Parc is located in Svanvik

WEB CAMERAS IN THE KIRKENES AREA
View over center town: www.youtube.com/watch?v=69qgs-4i1T8
View over the Bøkfjord: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE4MDRNwGU8

WHERE TO SLEEP IN KIRKENES

Kirkenes and the region offers a ranch of different accommodations: hotel, guesthouse, cabins or private accommodation. For more information you can also check https://www.visitkirkenes.info/en/sleep/

WHERE TO EAT IN KIRKENES

Good food and local ingredients are something you get to experience in Kirkenes: reindeer meat, king crab, fish and much more.
You can get the freshest and best king crab meat on one of our excursions, which all include a king crab dinner. The tours run all year round.
Please check here for our king crab tours: www.bookingkirkenes.no/shop/

Aurora Restobar (menu added) in Dr Wesselsgate. Open every day, Sundays closed
Surf & Turf (menu added) in Dr Wesselsgate. Open every day.
Thon Hotel Restaurant
Scandic Hotel Restaurant
China Restaurant, Dr Wesselsgate 3
Thai food at Bangkok Restaurant. Dr Wesselsgate 9. Open every day until 21.00
Snowhotel Restaurant Kirkenes.
For more information you can check: www.visitkirkenes.info/en/eat

Useful web pages you can check

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