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It is getting increasingly popular to spend the Christmas holidays in Iceland - as well as the New Year's Eve. The month of December is the darkest time of the year in Iceland, but thanks to the snow and the Christmas lights and even the Northern lights that dance a cross the sky, this month turns out to be one of the more fascinating time of the year.

In Akureyri we have many guests from abroad for Christmas and New Year´s Eve. Here is a warm holiday greeting to you from the Mayor of Akureyri.

To day is winter solstice. The longest night of the year and the shortest day - in Grímsey which is Iceland's northernmost part - it is only about 2 hours daylight.

The last 1.5 week it has been snowing a lot and the town has been turned into a dreamlike fairyland.

The ski center in Mt. Hlíðarfjall above Akureyri opens to day 19th of December at 16.00

The storm is over and things are slowly turning back to normal again. Children are back in school, streets are getting cleared of snow and town buses are up and running as well as the air-traffic.

The town has been decorated for the coming holiday season.

The town has been decorated for the coming Christmas season and on Saturday 23rd November the big Christmas tree on the towns square, will be lit at 16.00.

Beautiful sunny days - but a bit cold. At this time of year the sun stays low on the horizon.

The beautiful house below the church is a Memorial house of Matthías Jochumsson. He was an Icelandic clergyman, a poet and wrote playwrights. He is best known for his lyrical poetry and for writing the national anthem of Iceland, "Lofsöngur", in 1874.