How Much Is a Northern Lights Tour in Iceland

An evening northern lights tour in Iceland costs €47.50–€212.95 per person on GetYourGuide (6 Oct 2026): a boat from €47.50, a big bus from €65, a small-group minibus from €101 and a 4x4 or super jeep from €135. Private tours start at about €350 for your group, and 2–5-day packages at €588.06.

The same range, €47.50–€212.95 per person for an evening, because almost every tour starts in Reykjavik: from €47.50 on the Elding cruise at the Old Harbour to €212.95 on the Norse Adventures jeep with at most 14 people. Our pick, the Small-Group Premium tour, costs €101 with hotel pickup. On some tours pickup costs extra — €83 instead of €72 on the Hot Cocoa bus tour.

The Elding Northern Lights & City Cruise at €47.50 (★4.1 · 107 reviews), from Reykjavik’s Old Harbour. The cheapest land tour is the big-bus Adventure Tour at €65 (★4.3 · 795 reviews), with a retry the next evening. A boat can’t drive away from cloud, so on a mixed forecast the bus is the safer budget choice. The Aurora Reykjavik exhibition costs €28, but it is a museum, not a tour.

No. Every tour depends on the same sky, and no price buys a stronger aurora. More money buys one of four things: a smaller group, photos of you, a longer hunt or a longer retry. The last two do give you more time to find clear sky — the 5-hour David The Guide tour costs €106.92, €5.92 more than the 4-hour Small-Group Premium tour, whose retry lasts 3 years.

The retry is free on most tours, so it is already in the price. That is why the length of the retry matters when you compare two similar prices: 3 years on the Small-Group Premium minibus, a lifetime on Gray Line, the next evening on the Adventure bus tour.

Yes. The prices on this page are the advertised “from” prices on 6 Oct 2026, and the price for your date and option can be higher. The option you pick changes the price too: on the Hot Cocoa bus tour, hotel pickup costs €83 instead of €72 at the bus stop. Operators also run promotions that come and go, so check the live price for your night before you book.

The listings we compare price children like adults per person, and each tour sets its own minimum age: 5 years on EastWest, 6 on the Hot Cocoa bus tour, 7 on the Aurora Viking photo tour and 8 on the Small-Group Premium tour. Use the family calculator above.

On most bus, minibus and 4x4 tours, yes. On the Hot Cocoa bus tour, meeting at a bus stop costs €72 and hotel pickup €83 on the date we checked; on Gray Line, €70 from BSÍ and €72 with transfer. Boats leave from the Old Harbour and charge extra for pickup.

€106.92–€147.02 per person if someone else takes the photos, or €72.15 for coaching while you shoot your own. Free photos come with several small-group tours: David The Guide from €106.92, the Nordur Travel 4x4 from €135 and EastWest from €144. Aurora Viking, at €147.02, has a guide who is also the photographer. For photo coaching, bring your own camera. See all photography tours.

From €47.50 per person on the Elding cruise and €93 on the yacht, both from Reykjavik’s Old Harbour. The yacht has ★4.4 · 1,359 reviews, three panoramic decks and a bar; the Elding cruise has ★4.1 · 107 reviews and lasts 2.5 hours. The whale-watching and northern lights combo costs €174 for two separate sailings on the same day. See northern lights cruises.

Not for seeing the real aurora: it costs €28 (★4.1 · 198 reviews), but it is a northern lights center in the city, not a tour. It works as a plan B for a fully cloudy night rather than a way to see the real aurora. The center is at Fiskislóð 53 in Reykjavik, is suitable for all ages and is wheelchair accessible.