Aurora Hunt with Campfire, Marshmallows and Thermal Suits

No. Guides can't confirm eligibility or change bookings during a tour. Rescheduling, cancellations, and refunds are handled by Customer Care, so contact them with your booking number, and they'll check your options against the policy for your tour. Tours run by partner companies follow the partner's own policy, which Customer Care can also explain.

Yes, sometimes. On a clear night with strong solar activity, the aurora is visible from Reykjavík, but streetlights wash out anything faint, so most displays look weaker from town. Cloud cover and solar activity both have to line up on the same night, and the city adds a third obstacle. The tour removes that obstacle by driving to darker countryside spots such as Þingvellir National Park, the Reykjanes Peninsula, or the Hellisheiði plateau east of the city, wherever the sky is clearest that night.

No. The aurora is a natural phenomenon, and no tour can guarantee a sighting. If the tour runs and no Northern Lights are seen, you get unlimited free retries for up to 3 years under our free retry policy. Retries run on our standard minibus Northern Lights tour, and you book them through Customer Care, subject to availability. No refund is issued when the tour runs but the aurora doesn't appear.

The Northern Lights season in Iceland runs from September to April, and this tour runs for the whole of it. The first sightings sometimes come in late August, but nights aren't reliably dark until September. December and January have the longest nights, so the viewing window is widest then, while September, October, March, and April bring milder weather and more daylight for daytime plans. Cold itself doesn't matter; darkness and clear skies do.