{"id":645518,"date":"2025-12-21T04:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645518\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T04:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:06:16","slug":"arctic-magic-why-winter-is-the-perfect-time-to-visit-the-norwegian-city-of-tromso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645518\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic magic: Why winter is the perfect time to visit the Norwegian city of Troms\u00f8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the tour, we\u2019re told the best time to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/aurora\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aurora<\/a> is in the winter months, when the long, dark polar nights prevail. From late November through to mid-January, the sun doesn\u2019t rise in Troms\u00f8 at all, while the summer gifts the city with days where the sun stays just above the horizon for 24 hours. I watch as sections of the day are lit in a dreamlike wash of deep blue and violet, before giving way to complete nightfall, courtesy of my December trip.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the tour, we\u2019re told the best time to see the Aurora is in the winter months, when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3843],"tags":[3942,6306,728,6623,1115,57535,70,16,15],"class_list":["post-645518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-arctic","tag-aurora","tag-environment","tag-northern-lights","tag-norway","tag-norwegian","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115755586890172910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}