Solmelding

Solmelding shows the weather in Norway for the next seven days, so you quickly see where it's nice. You can choose whether to see all weather or only places with good weather on the map.

Weather map

Pick a day in the top bar and see on the map where the sun is shining. Each place has a weather icon and a Weather points score for 8am–8pm. The reason we only use data between 8am and 8pm is that for most people this is the time of day when you care most about nice weather for being outdoors. In most cases it doesn't matter much whether it rains at 3am at night or not (but you can also see a detailed hour-by-hour forecast around the clock with Solmelding). Click a marker for a detailed forecast, or use the playback button to see how the day develops hour by hour.

Weekend trip

Choose the days you want to travel and how far you're willing to drive from your home location. We find the five places with the best expected Weather points in the period (still between 8am and 8pm), show them on the map with driving distance and time, and let you compare the forecast for each option.

Settings

Under Settings you set your home location (used for “nearest sun” and as the default starting point for Weekend trip), turn on “Sun only” to hide bad weather and rain, or “Show all” to show all places regardless of zoom. You can also switch between light and dark theme. Your choices are remembered on your device.

Solmelding is developed and owned by Soothing Relaxation AS. The service is built to make it easier to find out where in Norway the weather is nice - without ads or complicated menus. All credit goes to Yr, NRK and Meteorologisk institutt for the data that underpins the service, and for making it openly available to everyone.

We fetch, display and process data from open sources, but do not own it. All credit for our data foundation goes to the following sources:

• Weather data: Sourced from Yr, provided by Meteorologisk institutt and NRK. Used under CC BY 4.0.
• Map data: Borders and geography from Natural Earth.
• Driving distances: Calculated with Google Maps.

Solmelding is not affiliated with or sponsored by any of the providers mentioned above.

To make it easier to compare days and places, we calculate a single numeric score for each day - we call it Weather points. The scale is 0–100, where 100 is a flawless summer day and 0 is a grey, cold rainy day.

The Weather points are calculated for the period 8am–8pm and build on three independent sub-scores:

• Sun score (0–100) - the share of 8am–8pm with a clear-sky, fair or partly cloudy symbol. 100 = sun all day.
• Dry score (0–100) - 100 = no precipitation, 0 = 5 mm or more during the period.
• Warmth score (0–100) - 0 at 0 °C and colder, 100 at 25 °C and warmer.

The combined Weather points total blends the three sub-scores: sun counts the most (65 %), warmth a little (35 %) and rain pulls it down by up to 20 points. It's a rule of thumb, not the gospel truth - check the detailed forecast before you set off.

Solmelding uses Simple Analytics for anonymous visitor statistics - we only see aggregated numbers, never who you are.

Settings such as home location, theme and map filter are stored locally in your browser and never leave your device.

Do you have a suggestion, have you found a bug, or do you just want to say hi? Feel free to get in touch with Soothing Relaxation AS.