Reindeer northern lights tours in Rovaniemi
By Jani Alakurtti · Updated
This page covers 25 of the 363 northern lights tours in our Rovaniemi data: the ones that are reindeer northern lights tours. Northern lights in Rovaniemi explains how each tour ends up in one type and lists them all, and northern lights tour prices in Rovaniemi compares what the types cost. Other types with a page of their own: northern lights tours by car, snowmobile northern lights tours and husky northern lights tours. Every activity in Rovaniemi, side by side: Rovaniemi in winter.
What is a reindeer northern lights tour like?
- Tours
- 25 reindeer northern lights tours with a working booking link, from 19 operator names.
- Price per person, not private
- From €139; typical €179. n = 7 of 23 non-private tours
- Typical duration
- 3 h (n = 19)
Reindeer tours: reindeer or reindeer sleigh as the only main mode. Typical = median. Prices are the lowest listed per-person prices; private tours and group prices are left out. Details and sources below.
Reindeer tours in our data vary: some are sleigh rides or reindeer safaris, while others centre on an evening at a farm, by a fire or in a cabin, with reindeer as part of it. On one night in ten from December to February it is colder than −15 °C between 20:00 and 02:00, so warm clothing matters. Fewer than half of the listings say winter clothing is included and most of the rest do not mention it, so check before you book.
All reindeer northern lights tours
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Grouped by duration; within each duration group, per-person prices and prices without a stated basis come first, lowest first, then group prices, then tours without a price.
Up to 3 hours
- Watching the Northern Lights from a campfire on a reindeer pasture in Rovaniemi
Porovaara Reindeer Hill · 2 h · €119 (basis not stated)
Runs in both seasons
Food or hot drinks
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Night Safari: Chasing Northern Lights with Reindeer (sleigh ride about 40-60 min)
Sieriporo Safaris · 2 h · €139 (basis not stated)
Runs in the snow season
Winter clothingFood or hot drinks
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - In Search of the Northern Lights
Santa Claus Reindeer · 3 h · €169 (basis not stated)
Listed for Dec–Mar
Hotel pickupWinter clothingFood or hot drinks
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - In Search of the Northern Lights – Reindeer Sleigh Ride Under the Arctic Sky
Santa Claus Reindeer · 3 h · €169 (basis not stated)
Runs in the snow season
Food or hot drinks
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Rovaniemi: 2km Aurora Reindeer Safari Through the Forest
Santa Claus Holiday Village Safaris · 3 h · €179 / person
Hotel pickupWinter clothing
Check on GetYourGuide (opens in a new tab) - Rovaniemi: Aurora Reindeer Sleigh Ride & Cozy Farm Evening
Arctic Photo Experience · 3 h · €179 / person
Hotel pickupSmall groupFood or hot drinks
Check on GetYourGuide (opens in a new tab) - Chasing Auroras by Reindeer Safari
Wild About Lapland · 3 h · €192 / person
Hotel pickupWinter clothingFood or hot drinksGuarantee: partial refund
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Rovaniemi: Reindeer Safari and Northern Lights Tour
Wonderlapland · 2 h 30 min · €220 / person
Food or hot drinks
Check on GetYourGuide (opens in a new tab) - Rovaniemi: Private Reindeer & Northern Lights Tour
Tourvelle Oy · 3 h · €445 / person
Hotel pickupPrivate
Check on GetYourGuide (opens in a new tab) - Aurora Hunting on Reindeer Safari, Rovaniemi
Rovaniemi-tours.com · 2 h · –
Runs in the snow season
Hotel pickupWinter clothingFood or hot drinks
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Midnight Sun & Aurora Borealis
Sunny Safari · 3 h · –
Photos of you
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Northern lights flight
Helios Tour · 2 h · –
Hotel pickupSmall group
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Northern lights hunting by reindeer sleigh
Helios Tour · 3 h · –
Runs in the snow season
Hotel pickupWinter clothingFood or hot drinks
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Reindeer Sleigh Ride & Aurora Witnessing - Rovaniemi
Nordic Adventures · 3 h · –
Runs in the snow season
Hotel pickupSmall groupWinter clothingFood or hot drinksFamily-friendly
Operator's website (opens in a new tab)
Over 3 and up to 5 hours
- Electric Reindeer safari to the Aurora Cabin (Northern Lights)
SnowTrail Safaris · 4 h · €149 (basis not stated)
Runs in the snow season
Winter clothingFood or hot drinks
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Rovaniemi: Northern Lights & Reindeer Evening Experience
Santa Claus Reindeer · 3 h 30 min · €169 / person
Hotel pickupSmall groupFood or hot drinks
Check on GetYourGuide (opens in a new tab) - Rovaniemi: Northern Lights Reindeer Sleigh Ride 3.5 km
Rovaniemi Tours Oy · 3 h 30 min · €199 / person
Hotel pickupSmall groupWinter clothingFood or hot drinksFamily-friendly
Check on GetYourGuide (opens in a new tab) - Northern Lights Tour Reindeer Safari
StayLapland · 3 h 30 min · –
Listed for Nov–Apr
Winter clothingFood or hot drinks
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Private northern lights hunting
Helios Tour · 4 h · –
Listed for Aug–Mar
Hotel pickupPrivateFood or hot drinks
Operator's website (opens in a new tab)
Several days
- Aurora Hunting | Visit Lapland Tours
Visit Lapland Tours · 3 days · –
Operator's website (opens in a new tab)
Duration not stated
- Reindeer Night Safari: Chasing the Northern Lights
Golden Circle Suites · – · €139 / person
Winter clothingFood or hot drinks
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Northern Lights Reindeer Safari
Rovaniemi Tours · – · €200 (basis not stated)
Food or hot drinks
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Northern Lights at our Piiru Forest Resort in Rovaniemi, Lapland
Christmas House Santa Claus & Safaris · – · –
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Northern Lights Hunting by Reindeer Sleigh Ride
Access Lapland · – · –
Runs in the snow season
Operator's website (opens in a new tab) - Northern Lights safari in Rovaniemi, Lapland by Christmas House Safaris
Christmas House Santa Claus & Safaris · – · –
Operator's website (opens in a new tab)
What the marks mean
- Hotel pickup
- pickup from your accommodation stated as included.
- Small group
- at most 8 participants, or "small group" in the listing.
- Private
- "private", "yksityinen" or "VIP" in the tour title.
- Title says summer or autumn
- the tour title names summer or autumn.
- Winter clothing
- winter clothing (overalls, boots or thermal suit) stated as included.
- Food or hot drinks
- a meal, snack or hot drink stated as included.
- Photos of you
- photos taken of the guests stated as included.
- Guarantee
- a refund, free retry or partial refund if the northern lights do not show (terms vary).
- Family-friendly
- "family" in the tour title, or a stated minimum age of 4 years or less.
Features are marked from the text of the listings and the operators’ own pages. A missing mark means the listing does not mention it, not that it is left out. Duration groups use the midpoint of the stated range (a 3–4 hour tour counts as 3.5 hours): up to 3 hours, over 3 and up to 5, over 5 and up to 7, over 7 hours, and tours of several days. Season comes from the operator’s own availability calendar in Visit Finland DataHub, or from a season stated on the operator’s own page. The snow season means the months when snow covers the ground on at least half the days at the weather station used on this site. A tour without a season simply does not state one. Filters are offered only for features that the listings state for at least 70 % of the tours and at least 50 % of the tours from each source, so a feature can be marked on a tour without being offered as a filter. 111 more northern lights tours in our data are not listed here because they have no working booking link yet.
All northern lights tours in Rovaniemi on GetYourGuide (opens in a new tab)
Run a tour here that’s missing, or see an error? Email [email protected]. Reported tours are checked on the operator’s public website before they are added.
What is included
| Item | Stated in the listing | Not stated |
|---|---|---|
| Winter clothing | 11 included 1 not included or on request | 13 of 25 |
| Hotel pickup | 12 included 5 available / pickup points 0 not included | 8 of 25 |
Not stated = not found in the collected listing text (on GetYourGuide, the start of the "included" list), so a listing can say more than we found. Hotel pickup "available / pickup points" = pickup offered or pickup points listed, possibly at extra cost.
Price per hour
| Lowest | Typical | Highest | Tours with price and duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| €48 / h | €60 / h | €88 / h | 6 of 23 |
Only tours that are not private and state both a per-person price and a duration in hours. Duration = midpoint of the stated range; multi-day tours are left out. Typical = median; not shown when fewer than 5 tours. Price per hour does not account for what is included, so it is a rough comparison, not a measure of value.
Questions about reindeer tours
How much do reindeer northern lights tours cost?
7 of the 23 tours that are not private state a per-person price: from €139, typically (median) €179 and up to €220. 6 state a price that cannot be compared per person (a group price or no stated basis) and 10 state no price at all, so the tour list can show higher prices than this range, and 2 private tours are left out because a private tour's per-person price depends on group size. These are listed starting prices on the collection date.
How long do reindeer northern lights tours take?
19 of 25 tours state a duration in hours: typically (median) 3 h, from 2 h to 4 h. 1 tour lasts several days. 5 do not state a usable duration.
Can children join?
2 of the 25 tours here state a minimum age: 3 years; 1 from the operator's own page, 1 from the GetYourGuide age field. The other 23 do not state one, which is not the same as saying children can join — ask the operator. Tours with a stated minimum age of 4 years or less are marked family-friendly.
What if the northern lights don’t show?
Of 25 tours: 6 say sightings are not guaranteed (No guarantee); 1 offers a partial refund (Partial refund); 18 do not mention it. These counts describe refund and retry conditions as the listings state them. A guarantee or a success rate in a tour title is a booking condition or the operator’s own figure, not a forecast; our own figure for how often the sky is clear and dark is on the northern lights page.
Who are reindeer northern lights tours for?
Reindeer tours suit you if you want to meet reindeer and prefer a calm pace to speed. They are among the pricier tours in our data: the typical per-person price is higher than for tours by car or by snowmobile, and so is the price per hour. These figures rest on few tours: fewer than a third of the reindeer tours that are not private state a per-person price.
Based on the 25 reindeer northern lights tours in our data, from operators’ own websites, GetYourGuide or visitrovaniemi.fi.
Sources and method
Climate data
- 10th percentile of those nightly means: one night in ten was colder; n = nights. Source: FMI temperature observations (t2m, on the hour) (opens in a new tab); Rovaniemi railway station (FMI weather station) (id 101928), 1 km from Rovaniemi; period 2015-01-01..2024-12-31; n = 283–310 per month.
We do not compare destinations with these figures, because differences between weather stations can explain differences between places.
Tour data
How operators were found: no single list is complete, so we combined 619 candidate companies from several sources (Visit Finland DataHub 137, GetYourGuide 88, the Finnish Trade Register (PRH open data, tourism-related lines of business) 424, Viator 6, visitrovaniemi.fi listings 38, the visitrovaniemi.fi company directory 89, web searches in seven languages 141; a company can be in several). Each candidate with a website was checked on its own website. Tour details are taken first from the operator’s own website (or Visit Finland DataHub (opens in a new tab)); booking platforms fill in what the operator’s page does not state.
The tables and tour lists include the northern lights tours in our data that have a working booking link: 363 tours (175 with details from the operator’s own website or Visit Finland DataHub; listed on: DataHub 45, GetYourGuide 155, Viator 23, visitrovaniemi.fi 94, operator site 149 — the same tour is often listed in several places, so these add up to more than 363), collected 2026-09-21–2026-09-22. Northern lights tours: listed as a northern lights tour on GetYourGuide, Viator or visitrovaniemi.fi (Rovaniemi only), or naming the northern lights (aurora) in the title on the operator’s own website, or tagged or titled as one in Visit Finland DataHub. 26 platform listings that were not northern lights tours were left out. 111 tours were left out because they have no working booking link yet. A tour whose operating base is more than 50 km from the centre is listed only when the tour page says it departs from, or picks up in, the destination; the distance is then shown on the tour. Distances are measured from coordinates in Visit Finland DataHub, or from the postal code of the company’s registered address (PRH open data (opens in a new tab); postal code areas from Statistics Finland (opens in a new tab)). Prices change daily; check them on the booking page.
Links to operators’ own pages were last checked on : 1404 addresses across every activity on this site, of which 21 did not answer with a working page and are not linked. GetYourGuide and Viator links are not fetched.
This page shows the 25 of them in the group “Reindeer” (reindeer or reindeer sleigh as the only main mode). Each tour belongs to exactly one group.
No sort order on this site is affected by commission.
Data source files: data/monthly_metrics.csv, data/operators_products.csv, data/operator_catalog.csv, data/discovery/datahub_experiences.csv. Company register data: PRH open data (avoindata.prh.fi) (opens in a new tab).
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