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Höfn

Iceland
Someday we will visit Höfn or begin to dream about going there! However, for now its not on our radar. Let us know in the comments if you think that should change!

Höfn

Höfn (pronounced something like "herpn", also known as Höfn í Hornafirði, is a town in East Iceland, at the south-eastern corner of the country. Höfn sits by the lagoon Hornafjörður which is also the name of the large municipality of which the town is the centre and which covers the entire area of the county Austur-Skaftafellssýsla. This guide covers the town and the surrounding municipality, excluding the westernmost part which forms one of the main gateways to Vatnajökull National Park. For tourism purposes, the area calls itself the Vatnajökull Region: nowhere else is quite as dominated by Europe's largest glacier, nowhere else have people learned to live in such close quarters with the huge sheet of ice.

A cultural highlight of the town is the annual Humarhátíð (a lobster festival) held on the first weekend of July. During the summer season, the Glacier Exhibition is held in the old supermarket building.

Höfn is located on a peninsula in the southeast of Iceland. The name Höfn means harbour and it is a fishing port surrounded on three sides by the sea, with beaches on a long shoreline to the southeast. Shoals and glacial rivers traverse this area with many shifting lagoons and sand reefs being formed. Höfn is surrounded by several small islands to the east of the town, the largest of which is Mikley, followed by Krókalátur and Hellir.

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Climate

Average temperatures

Jan

2.5°C-2.5
Precipitation: 164.2 mm

Feb

2.9°C-2
Precipitation: 130.2 mm

Mar

3.5°C-1.8
Precipitation: 121.2 mm

Apr

5.7°C0.3
Precipitation: 94.8 mm

May

8.5°C3.2
Precipitation: 95.7 mm

Jun

11°C6.1
Precipitation: 88.8 mm

Jul

12.6°C7.7
Precipitation: 84.4 mm

Aug

12.2°C7.3
Precipitation: 110.7 mm

Sep

9.9°C4.7
Precipitation: 119 mm

Oct

7°C2.2
Precipitation: 183.1 mm

Nov

3.7°C-1.2
Precipitation: 116.8 mm

Dec

2.7°C-2.7
Precipitation: 145.9 mm