Northern-Lights

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. ✅ Quick Answer Cheap flights from London to Reykjavik start around £49 one-way, with January, February and November the cheapest months at roughly £49 to £85, while June through August climb to £110 to £220. The direct flight takes about 2 hours 50 minutes to 3 hours on easyJet, Icelandair, Play or Wizz Air, and Keflavík Airport (KEF) sits about 50 km from Reykjavik with no train link, so the Flybus coach (around £22, 45 to 50 minutes) is the standard transfer. Flying in the cheaper winter months also lines up with the best Northern Lights conditions. Cheap Flights from London to Reykjavik: What Nobody Tells You I booked the wrong month on purpose. Everyone said go in summer, chase the midnight sun, do the Golden Circle in a T-shirt. Instead I flew in January on a £55 Play ticket, landed at Keflavík in the dark, stepped off the Flybus into a city lit up like a film set, and soaked in a geothermal pool under a sky that turned green and then white and then green again. The Northern Lights are not guaranteed — every guide says that — but nobody mentioned that a cheap January fare is half the reason they’re worth chasing. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. ✅ Quick Answer It depends on what you want. June to August brings the midnight sun, the warmest weather, and open Highland roads, but also peak crowds and prices. Late September to March is the season for northern lights and lower costs, with shorter days and tougher driving conditions. The Best Time to Visit Iceland, in One Sentence It was 11:40 at night and the sky over Thingvellir was still the color of weak tea. We’d pulled the campervan onto a gravel shoulder, too tired to drive but too wired by the light to sleep, and my brother said the thing I’ve thought every June since: “It’s like the day forgot to end.” That was the midnight sun, and it spoiled us. The flights had cost a fortune and the campsite fees stung, but nobody warned us how hard it is to go to bed when the sun won’t. ...