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The nearest restaurants, the best attractions, the way to the northern lights … It is certainly true that there is an app for everything these days.

Visit Norway – Norway in your pocket

The Visit Norway app gives you information about thousands of places to stay, restaurants, activities, and attractions on and near your destination.

Norway Lights

Norway Lights is a website with a northern lights forecast as well as an app with an overview of places known as main “northern light cities” in Norway. It has a user-friendly interface that is designed to help you decide when and where to go aurora chasing, as well as how to get there.

The app provides a three-day northern lights forecast with an hourly forecast for the current day. It gives recommendations to go, try or wait for the northern lights in a specific city, based on weather forecast and solar wind activity.

Useful information such as facts about the northern lights a map indicating your position in relation to other Norwegian cities, photo tips and other tips & tricks are also included in the app in addition to handy short-cuts to flight and tour options.

Norway in virtual reality

With the Visit Norway VR app, you will get a bird’s eye view of Norway in virtual reality through immersive 360 panoramas. Fly hundreds of meters above the deep blue fjords, waterfalls, mountains and glaciers – all from the safety of your own couch.

You can explore the panoramas from your smartphone. To experience it in real VR, you need a VR headset, such as Google Cardboard.

Other Helpful Travel Apps

Whatever you plan to do, you bet there is an app for it. The Norwegian online magazine amobil.no put together a list of useful apps for tourists in Norway. Here is a selection of their recommendations:

  • Pack smarter with Packing Pro for iPhone or Packing List for Android.
  • Check out the weather in Norway with Yr or Storm.
  • Keep an eye on your flights with SAS’s free travel app.
  • Travelling with Norwegian? Get the Norwegian’s Travel Assistant.
  • Vy (formerly NSB) has an app for iPhone and Android.
  • Plan your trip around Norway with the Entur app, which gives you travel suggestions based on the entire Norwegian public transportation service.
  • The Mivai app provides a full overview over taxi offers and prices near you.
  • Going hiking? Use In Sight Norway as your informative local tour guide.
  • The cartoonish couple Baahdi & Birdy, a sheep and a bird, who help to make everything from nature to museums entertaining and interesting for kids.
  • Find my Friends is the perfect app for locating friends when travelling in a group.
  • ECC-Net: Travel informs you of your consumer rights and how to claim them.
  • Discover Norway's outdoor adventures with the Outdooractive app. With over 2000 alternatives from hiking in Jotunheimen to surfing in Lofoten, you're guaranteed to find the best tips for you.

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