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A night spent looking up.

Northern Lights tour from Rovaniemi · from €65 per person

Our Northern Lights tour leaves Rovaniemi after dark and heads for the places the aurora shows best — frozen lakes, forest roads and open snowfields, well beyond the town’s glow.

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A group on a frozen lake beneath vertical aurora rays
An aurora corona bursting overhead above frosted treetops
Departs fromRovaniemi
PickupYour accommodation
WhenEvenings, after dark
PriceFrom €65 per person
DurationAbout 3 to 10 hours, by tour

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Six ways to follow the Arctic sky.

From a shared seat to a private journey towards Levi. Every tour includes guide photography with digital photos, hot drinks and our camera-based refund guarantee.

Aurora guarantee · every tour

No aurora captured by our guide’s camera during your tour? We refund your tour payment in full. You can also book a tour for the following evening at the same package price, subject to availability — that is a separate, paid booking.

How it works

Rovaniemi

Aurora Open Seat

Come solo. Leave with an Arctic story.

Join a shared Northern Lights tour without paying for a whole vehicle. We’ll take you beyond Rovaniemi’s city lights to seek out the aurora with an experienced local host. It’s an easy way to make room for a little Lapland magic in your trip.

  • Approx. 3 hours
  • Shared departure
  • Rovaniemi pickup area
  • Guide photography and digital photos
  • Hot drinks
  • Camera-based refund guarantee

From €65 per person

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Shared departure subject to minimum bookings; confirmed before payment.

Rovaniemi

Private Aurora Escape

The night is yours to share.

Settle into a comfortable private car with your partner, family or friends. We’ll collect your group in Rovaniemi and visit promising spots at a pace that feels right for you.

  • Approx. 3 hours
  • Up to 4 guests
  • Rovaniemi pickup area
  • Guide photography and digital photos
  • Hot drinks
  • Camera-based refund guarantee

€349 per car

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Travel area and any extension confirmed at booking.

Rovaniemi

Private Aurora Sky Chase

Follow the sky, together.

Our signature private car experience gives your group more time to explore. Your host plans the route around the evening’s conditions, with the flexibility to travel farther and pause when the sky calls for it.

  • Approx. 5 hours
  • Up to 4 guests
  • Rovaniemi pickup area
  • Guide photography and digital photos
  • Hot drinks
  • Camera-based refund guarantee

€499 per car

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Travel area and any extension confirmed at booking.

Rovaniemi

Northern Lights Together

A private Arctic night for your group.

Bring everyone along in one van for a Northern Lights hunt planned around your evening. Share the journey, the anticipation and, with luck, the moment the aurora appears.

  • Approx. 4 hours
  • Guest capacity confirmed
  • Rovaniemi pickup area
  • Guide photography and digital photos
  • Hot drinks
  • Camera-based refund guarantee

From €599 per van

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Passenger capacity and luggage space confirmed before booking.

Rovaniemi → Levi

Levi Aurora Expedition

An Arctic road trip worth staying up for.

Travel privately from Rovaniemi towards Levi and explore dark-sky stops chosen around the evening’s conditions. Enjoy an unhurried night on the road, with space to watch, photograph and experience Lapland together.

  • Approx. 8–10 hours
  • Up to 5 guests
  • Rovaniemi pickup and return
  • Guide photography and digital photos
  • Hot drinks
  • Camera-based refund guarantee

€1,300 per car

Enquire about Levi

Includes a planned route towards Levi; exact itinerary and travel area confirmed before booking. Additional destinations quoted separately.

Your choice

Custom Aurora Journey

Tell us your dream Arctic evening.

Want a special pickup, a longer night, multiple vehicles or a destination beyond our set routes? Share your plans and we’ll build a private aurora itinerary around your group.

  • Flexible
  • Car or van
  • Guide photography and digital photos
  • Hot drinks
  • Camera-based refund guarantee
  • Pickup, duration and route specified in your quote

Custom quote

Request your itinerary

Tell us your date, pickup and return points, group size, luggage and preferred duration.

A guest on a snow mound beneath a wide aurora arc over a frozen lake

The experience

The dark is the destination.

You don’t find the aurora under streetlights. You find it out where the snow squeaks underfoot and the only glow is overhead — on a frozen lake with a clear view north, or a quiet forest road with the engine off.

That’s where we take you. The photographs in the guest gallery further down are our guests’ own, taken on nights exactly like the one you’re planning.

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The sky in motion

It never holds still.

A photograph catches one moment. The aurora itself folds, ripples and drifts — sometimes slowly, sometimes within seconds. A few short clips of what that looks like.

What to expect

Planned around you. Steered by the sky.

01

Door to door

The evening starts and ends where you’re staying. Give us your accommodation when you book; we confirm your pickup time with the reservation.

02

Properly dark places

Frozen lakes, forest lanes, open fields — locations chosen because they are far from artificial light and open to the northern sky.

03

A route that follows the weather

Cloud cover decides where we go. The plan for the night is made on the night, around where the sky looks clearest.

An honest word about the aurora

We can’t switch the sky on. So we back every tour.

The Northern Lights depend on solar activity and clear sky, and both change by the hour. We bring local roads, patience and the willingness to keep looking — and if our guide’s camera captures no aurora during your tour, you get your tour payment back in full.

Our promise, in writing

No aurora captured by our guide’s camera during your tour? We refund your tour payment in full. You can also book a tour for the following evening at the same package price, subject to availability — that is a separate, paid booking.

The same wording is in our terms

How it works

From request to return.

  1. Request your date

    Choose an evening, tell us how many you are and where you’re staying. It takes a couple of minutes and nothing is charged.

  2. We confirm

    We check availability and reply with your confirmation: the price for your group, your pickup time and how to pay.

  3. Evening pickup

    We collect you from your accommodation and head out of town, away from the light.

  4. Under the sky, then home

    We go where the sky is clearest, wait, watch — and bring you back to your door when the night is done.

What you get

Included, and not.

Included

  • Guide photography and digital photos
  • Hot drinks
  • Our camera-based refund guarantee

Pricing

From €65 per person.

Shared seats are priced per person; private tours per car or van. Your total is calculated in the booking form and confirmed in our reply. Nothing is charged on this website.

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A couple beneath a bright aurora band above a line of spruce trees

From our guests’ nights

No two skies alike.

A bright green aurora band behind tall spruce and birch trees
Four guests holding hands on a moonlit frozen lake, looking up at the aurora
A guest standing on a frozen lake as the aurora curls overhead
A couple on a moonlit frozen lake with a green aurora column behind them
A couple in front of frosted trees with aurora and a beam of light behind
Guests pointing up at a green aurora column rising over a snow-covered lake
Friends leaning together and pointing at a sky filled with green aurora

Colours of the aurora

Green, violet, crimson.

Green is the colour seen most often. Pink and violet fringes show when a display is active, and deep red sits highest of all. Which of them a night brings is up to the sky.

A couple sitting at the end of a wooden dock as the aurora reflects in a still lake
A single green and violet aurora pillar mirrored in a calm lake
Lime-green aurora filling the sky over a small island, mirrored in the water
Green and red aurora arcing over forest and river rapids
A coiled green aurora band above a calm lake dotted with lily pads
Pink and white aurora rays above a lake under a violet sky
A couple in silhouette watching green and pink aurora curtains
Looking straight up through spruce trees at green and pink aurora
Four people in silhouette beneath the Milky Way and a faint aurora arc
A wide aurora swirl over a forest clearing, a vehicle’s red tail lights below
Green aurora at blue hour over a lake and spruce silhouettes
A lone figure on a rocky rise beneath a broad green aurora arc
A green and violet aurora beam crossing the sky above a still lake
A person in a yellow jacket standing on rocks, looking up at green aurora and stars

Important information

Before you come.

Clothing

Dress for standing still

You’ll spend time outdoors on an Arctic winter night. Wear warm layers, insulated boots, a hat and proper gloves. Unsure what to bring? Ask in your booking notes.

Your group

Tell us who’s coming

Let us know your group size — and the ages of any children — so we can plan the vehicle and the evening around you.

Confirmation

A request, then a reply

The online form sends a reservation request. Your tour is booked once we’ve confirmed it; price, pickup time and cancellation terms all come in that confirmation.

Start your booking

Pick an evening. We’ll do the rest.

A spare evening helps if the first is cloudy. Not booked a hotel yet? The area you expect to stay in is enough for now.

Price From €65 per person on a shared seat · private tours per car or van

Next: your contact details, then send. We reply by e-mail with your confirmation and pickup time.

FAQ

Tour questions, answered.

More about the tour, payment and transfers in the full FAQ.

No one can promise that, and we won’t. The aurora depends on solar activity and on clear, dark sky — both change by the hour. What we control is the effort: leaving the town’s light behind and going where the sky looks most promising that night. No aurora captured by our guide’s camera during your tour? We refund your tour payment in full. You can also book a tour for the following evening at the same package price, subject to availability — that is a separate, paid booking.

From €65 per person. Shared seats are priced per person; private tours per car or van. Your total is shown in the booking form before you send anything.

The aurora season in Lapland runs from roughly late August to early April, when the nights are dark enough. Within the season it comes down to solar activity and clear sky on the night itself — which is why a spare evening in your trip is worth having.

Dress for standing still outdoors on an Arctic winter night: warm layers, insulated boots, a hat and proper gloves. If you’re unsure about clothing, mention it in your booking notes and we’ll advise.

Not yet. The booking form sends us a reservation request with a reference number. We check availability for your date and reply to confirm — your booking is final once you’ve heard from us.

Cancellation and change terms are confirmed together with your booking. If your dates might move, tell us in the notes and we’ll make the terms clear before you commit.

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Somewhere north of town, the sky is moving.

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