Hurtigruten Ports

Hurtigruten ports of call. Many of the stopping off points along the way are little more than small fishing villages or small islands, whose inhabitants depend for their very existence on the Coastal Voyage ships, bringing them essential food and supplies, or carrying them to the nearest town for shopping expeditions.

Other ports of call are long established, bustling towns, owing their prosperity to the fishing, mining or shipbuilding industries.

Hurtigruten's coastal cruise starts in Bergen, Norway at 8 p.m. (summer) or 10:30 p.m. (winter). Over the next seven days, it stops at 34 ports, including "The Blue City" of Sortland and such well-known cities as Trondheim, Bodø, Tromsø, and Hammerfest (which claims to be the northernmost town world). The final destination, the port and mining town of Kirkenes, is around the northern tip of Norway, near the Russian border.

The ship then retraces its course to Bergen. Ports that were visited at night on the northbound voyage are daytime calls in the southbound direction, which means you can see all 35 ports during a roundtrip cruise without losing any sleep.

Port calls vary in length from 30 minutes or less to several hours. In summer, Hurtigruten offers shore excursions that last up to seven hours. (You leave the ship, board a bus, and join the vessel later at another port.)
If you don't have the time or money for a roundtrip cruise, you can buy a 7-day northbound or 6-day southbound voyage. The airport at Kirkenes, the northern terminus for Hurtigruten, offers flight connections to various cities (including Oslo), and a catamaran ferry will take you to the nearby Russian port of Murmansk.

01. Bergen
02. Florø
03. Måløy
04. Torvik
05. Ålesund
06. (Geiranger)- (only summer)
07. Molde
08. Kristiansund
09. Trondheim
10. Rørvik
11. Brønnøysund
12. Sandnessjøen
13. Nesna
14. Ørnes
15. Bodø
16. Stamsund
17. Svolvær
18. Stokmarknes
19. Sortland
20. Risøyhamn
21. Harstad
22. Finnsnes
23. Tromsø
24. Skjervøy
25. Øksfjord
26. Hammerfest
27. Havøysund
28. Honningsvåg
29. Kjøllefjord
30. Mehamn
31. Berlevåg
32. Båtsfjord
33. Vardø
34. Vadsø
35. Kirkenes

Hurtigruten Articles:

Introduction

Ships

Ports

History