{"id":326225,"date":"2025-12-20T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326225\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:21:07","slug":"arctic-magic-why-winter-is-the-perfect-time-to-visit-the-norwegian-city-of-tromso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326225\/","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":326226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3387,3540,1397,3539,4160,52185,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-326225","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","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}