Viewpoint · Abisko, Sweden

Aurora Sky Station

900 metres up by chairlift in the dark, in the driest sky in Swedish Lapland.

Aurora Sky Station is in Abisko, and this is Abisko — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 700 km across and 250 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it 3 hours · Winter only · 68.353°N, 18.816°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

Trains are fast, punctual and expensive unless booked well ahead; the night train to Abisko is worth taking for its own sake. All of Sweden →

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Abisko · Swedish Lapland · Sweden

We do not hold opening hours, prices or a website for this

Those are the three fields that go stale fastest and the three you are most damaged by being wrong about, so this site does not carry them at all rather than carrying an unverified version. Check the operator or the municipality on the day. The estimate of how long to give it, and the season, are editorial judgements and are usually stable.

Other places in Abisko

Lapporten

The U-shaped glacial notch that frames the valley and appears on everything Sámi Lapland prints.

Mountain

Journeys that stop here

Arctic to the Baltic

Midnight sun to hanseatic brick

19 days

The Cold North

Winter, treated as the reason rather than the problem

18 days

Arctic to Mediterranean

The full length of Europe, 69°N to 38°N

34 days

The record

What this atlas holds about Aurora Sky Station, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Viewpoint
Give it: 3 hours
Season: Winter only
Where: 68.353°N, 18.816°E
In: Abisko