Kuvagalleria
Tammikuu
Tammikuu on aurinkokuukausi! Ei siksi, että se näkyisi erityisen paljon, mutta siksi, että se palaa kaamoksen jälkeen!
Tammikuulla on toinenkin erityispiirre, nimittäin helmiäispilvet ( https://www.ursa.fi/ilmakeha/ilmiot/helmiaispilvet... niitä joka vuosi näe, mutta kun näkee, tietää kohdanneensa jotakin erityistä.
Tammikuu on myös ihana yhdistelmä kaamosta ja valoa. Iltaisin revontulia ja päivällä jännitystä, josko se aurinko pilkistää juuri tänään. Oikeastihan auringon voi nähdä noin 17.1 jälkeen.
Hassu juttu on se, että Kilpisjärven aurinkoa tullaan katsomaan myös naapurikylästä Skibottenista. Kun meillä aurinko jo kurkkii hyvän matkaa, siellä se uinailee vielä tuntureiden takana.
Tammikuu on yksi aarteista, joka ei ole vielä tavoittanut Kilpisjärven vierailijoita.
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January is a sun month!
Not because youd see it a lot, but because it comes back after
polar night season!
January has another special thing as well. They are called pearly clouds (Polar stratospheric
cloud) You can’t see them every year, but when you do you know you have experienced
something special.
January is also lovely mix of polar night and light. In the
night northern lights, during the day excitement, will the sun show up also this year? Really you can see
the sun on about 17th of january. Funny thing is that people come from the
other side of the border, Skibotn, to see the sun in Kilpisjärvi. When it
appears here it is still behind the mountains there.
Helmikuu
Helmikuu on pakkaskuu.
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Febuary
February is a frosty month. The light increases day by day.
Yet it is still cold at the village. Weekly daylight time is increasing with
10 minutes. Even though sun is already up, lovely and intensive colors are still
playing around sunrise and sunset. Chances to see the northern lights are good.
February is not hikers dream month, but first ones are arriving.
They are starting their way towards highest point of Finland, fell Halti (1324
m). In February, it is very important to listen to and respect nature, cause it
has amazingly big power.





Maaliskuu
Maaliskuussa kevät on jo aika lähellä ja aurinko lämmittää. Valoa riittää. Myös yöllä. Yöt ovat valoisia kun on pakkasta ja taivas on pilvetön.
Tunturit kutsuvat vaeltajia, varsinkin kuun loppu puolella. On kuitenkin syytä muistaa, että kevät on Käsivarren erämaassa vasta aluillaan ja usein maaliskuussa saattaa tulla suurimmat lumimäärät, toki lumentulo jatkuu usein huhtikuussa.
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March
In March, spring time is already quite close and the sun is
warming. There is so much light! Daily average is 10 hours.
In March also night has light to offer, polar lights I
mean. This is one of the main, and best, seasons to see them. In March
Kilpisjärvi normally gets a lot of snow.





Huhtikuu
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April
April is normally the end of the winter, but during 2022 it was
something else! In Easter time village was tested by a week long snowfall. I
can say, that really made a human humble. It is normal, that in some point of
April there is a big snowstorm.
Lenght of daylight is 14 hours! Sun is warming and snow starts to melt, yet it is normal to have 1
meter of snow and ice.
About mid – April and nearby Kilpisjärvi, beside the
road, it is possible to see one obvious sight of springtime: swans. They arrive
at the same time as first places with open water.




Toukokuu
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May
May is end of winter season in Kilpisjärvi. At the village there are ice-fishing competitions on firstweekend of May. When competition ends in Sunday afternoon, whole village gets empty. This is time for locals to have a little break.
We have daylight over 19 hours, no darkness at all. Snow is
melting fast. In Norway, Skibotn (first village after the border, 55km from
Kilpisjärvi) You can already see fresh green colour. Nature is starting to grow. This we have to wait a bit longer in Kilpisjärvi.



Kesäkuu
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June
Sun is shining 24/7. Also in May and July.
What is so great about June? Well, there can be pretty warm
weathers (+20), but no mosquitos. Lake can still be frozen until 20th of June.
At the end of the month, treas start to make leaves, You can see tiny green
colour.
Other places in Finland, midsummer festivities are considered to be festival of the middle of the summer, best part of the summer. In
Kilpisjärvi, it is beginning of summer. Part of midsummer festivities in Kilpisjärvi is cross-coutnry skiing competition. It has been held for decades.






Heinäkuu
Heinäkuu on matkailun ja retkeilijöiden kulta- aikaa. Kesä Kilpisjärvellä ja sen läheisyydessä on parhaimmillaan. Joskus kyllä erämaan kesä alkaa reilusti heinäkuun puolella, tähän kannattaa vaellusta suunnittelevien varautua.
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July
Very popular month among tourist, travellers and hikers. It is important to understand, that in the wilderness, July is beginning of the
summer. Some lakes can still have ice cover and there can be big floods.
Normally July is month with mosquitos. Luckily we don’t have so much of those in Kilpisjärvi. From that, we can thank wind.
July is best growing season in nature! Did You knew, that yearly growing season in Kilpisjärvi is 100 days?







Elokuu
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August
Still warm, but slowly it starts to be a bit dark in the evening. Not so many guests at the village. No more mosquitos. First autumnclours arrive at the end of month and first northern lights appear.





Syyskuu
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September
Month with so many colours! Do You know, what makes autumn colours (ruska in our language) so special in Kipisjärvi? Well, we don’t have
pinetrees, so this means, that whole nature is changing colours. This looks absolutely amazing! September is also very nice time to see northern lights.
Rather often fell Saana gets it’s first snow in September.
This normally stays only for very short time but it shows us direction..
Towards winter we go.







Lokakuu
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October
October is maybe the most hidden treasure in Kilpisjärvi. No one is having their holiday here in that time. YET, it is very beautiful month.
At the beginning of month it can be rather warm, but end of month snow has surely reached the ground. We can still have some autumn colours, expecially on the ground. We have northern lights, we have reflections from the northern lights in open waters. We have possibilites to walk all around, but yet, we can feel winter is approaching. Colours on the sky, beginning to be simular as they
are in polar night season.
October is definately one of the light months! Daylight we
have for over 10 hours






Marraskuu
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November
Daylight decreases over 1 hour every week and finally about 25th of November polar night season reaches Kilpisjärvi. Well, You don’t have
to be afraid, it is not total darkness, it is blueish time. Blueish time with beautiful and intense colours from rising and setting sun. Only thing we are not able to see, is the sun.
Snow arrives and world is really calm. It is good to spend
few weeks in November. You can deside Yourself by looking at the pictures, is
the polar night season so bad and dark?






Joulukuu
Kun keinovaloa kaipaa, Tromssasta löytyy helpotusta.
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December
We have arrived to my favourite season of the year,
Christmas,
It is pink, it is blue,
it is magical, and so are You : )





