About this guide
Akureyri Tourism is an independent travel guide to Akureyri and the north of Iceland, from Eyjafjörður to Húsavík and Lake Mývatn. It is written by Patrick Kühne, a travel publisher based in Germany who runs a small group of guides to single destinations.
Not the official tourist office
This site has no connection to the town of Akureyri, the port authority or any tourism body. Two organisations speak officially for the area. Visit Akureyri, at visitakureyri.is, is the town's official travel guide, and its tourist information desk is in the Hof cultural centre on Strandgata. Visit North Iceland, at northiceland.is, is the regional tourism organisation for the whole north. For opening hours, events, bus timetables and anything that depends on local decisions, their pages have the last word.
The desk in Hof is closed in winter, and the published opening hours differ from page to page, so check Visit Akureyri before you plan to drop in.
Where the facts come from
Distances, timetables, opening hours, sun times and climate figures on this site are taken from official or first-hand sources: Visit Akureyri, Visit North Iceland, Statistics Iceland, the Icelandic Met Office, the Environment Agency of Iceland for protected areas such as Mývatn and Goðafoss, Isavia for the airport, the road administration and Safetravel for road conditions, the baths and boat operators themselves, and the US Naval Observatory for sunrise, sunset and twilight. Each page lists the sources it relies on. We checked them in October 2026.
Where sources disagree, for example on bus times or on how long the light summer nights last, we say so or leave the detail out. One case worth knowing: some tourism pages speak of midnight sun in North Iceland, but in Akureyri the sun dips briefly below the horizon even at midsummer. Grímsey, on the Arctic Circle, does have the sun above the horizon all night in June.
How the site earns money
Tour cards and comparison tables link to GetYourGuide and, for tours that are not listed there, to Viator. When you book through these links we receive a commission, and your price stays the same. Prices, ratings and review counts come live from the booking platform. We do not write them.
We are not a tour operator and do not sell tours ourselves. Questions about a booking, a cancellation or a refund go to the platform or to the operator named in the table.
How tours are chosen
A tour appears here when it starts in or near Akureyri, at the cruise port or at a clear meeting point in the region, and fits the topic of the page. Some activities only start further away, such as rafting and riding in Skagafjörður or snowmobiling at Mývatn, and the pages say where you need to be. We leave out transfers, tours outside North Iceland and tours whose guest reviews are clearly weaker than the alternatives. Duration, pickup, age limits and what is included come from the tour pages. When the platform stops listing a tour, it disappears from this site automatically.
Shore excursions get extra attention. If a ship skips Akureyri, not every operator refunds the tour, so the shore excursions page favours tours that promise a refund if the ship does not dock, or a return in time for departure.
Photos
The photos come from Unsplash and illustrate the activities. Captions describe only what the picture shows and name the photographer. Some activity pictures were taken elsewhere in Iceland or abroad, and in that case the caption does not name a place.
Contact
Contact details are in the legal notice.