Iceland today, Monday, August 31, 2026
Live weather, road conditions, Met Office alerts, aurora forecast, daylight and fuel prices — nationally and region by region, refreshed throughout the day.
Iceland today, Monday, August 31, 2026: Reykjavík is 7°C and partly cloudy, the Ring Road is open, no weather warnings are active, the Kp index is 3.33, cheapest petrol is 201.1 ISK/L.
Around the country today, Vík is the warm spot at 8°C while Landmannalaugar sits at 4°C — a reminder that Iceland's weather is local, and the forecast 50 km down the road can look nothing like where you're standing.
Ring Road (R1) open, based on the latest Vegagerðin data. That's a snapshot of Route 1, the ring road most visitors drive daily — always check the live conditions map before setting out on a specific route, especially anything off the main road.
The Met Office has no weather warnings active right now. Seismically, the strongest recent earthquake was M3.4 earthquake near Iceland Region.
Tonight's geomagnetic Kp index is 3.33. Modest activity — Iceland sits under the auroral oval, so a dark clear sky can still show aurora.
Reykjavík gets 14.7 hours of daylight today, sunrise 06:08 and sunset 20:48 (UTC).
This briefing for Monday, August 31, 2026 pulls live public data — Open-Meteo, Vegagerðin/umferdin.is, NOAA SWPC and gasvaktin.is — every time the page rebuilds. Numbers above are the data-driven parts; this paragraph is our synthesis of what they mean for your day, not a forecast in itself.
Sourced live from Open-Meteo, Vegagerðin (umferdin.is), the Icelandic Met Office (vedur.is), NOAA SWPC and gasvaktin.is— unreachable sources are labelled "temporarily unavailable", never guessed.
Weather window
Current conditions at one reference spot per region, plus Reykjavík. Iceland's weather is local — the forecast 50 km down the road can look nothing like where you stand.
Reykjavík
7°Partly cloudy
Vík
8°Overcast
Höfn
7°Overcast
Borgarnes
4°Clear sky
Ísafjörður
4°Fog
Akureyri
5°Mostly clear
Egilsstaðir
6°Overcast
Landmannalaugar
4°Overcast
Roads & aurora
The serious data — road status, tonight's aurora chance, daylight and the cheapest fuel. Always confirm road conditions for your exact route before you drive.
Aurora tonightModest activity — Iceland sits under the auroral oval, so a dark clear sky can still show aurora.
Daylight (Reykjavík)Sunrise 06:08 UTC · Sunset 20:48 UTC
Alerts
Live weather warnings, earthquakes above magnitude 3 and volcano alert levels from the Icelandic Met Office. If a feed is unreachable it says so — nothing is guessed.
M3.4 earthquake — Iceland Region
Depth 0.0 km, at 12:57 UTC. Automatic + reviewed detections from the IMO SeisComP network.
No active weather warnings from the Met Office right now.
No volcano is above its background alert level.
Iceland by region
The same day, region by region — live weather from a reference town, a road-status line and any Met Office alerts routed there. One briefing, not seven separate pages.
South Coast
Aurora forecast →Vík8°Overcast · wind 26 km/hHöfn7°Overcast · wind 4 km/hNorth Iceland
Aurora forecast →Akureyri5°Mostly clear · wind 5 km/hHighlands
Aurora forecast →Landmannalaugar4°Overcast · wind 15 km/hReykjanes Peninsula
Aurora forecast →Town weather temporarily unavailable
- Earthquake: M3.4 earthquake — Iceland Region
Regional road lines cover the numbered roads allocated to each region's series (Vegagerðin data); Ring Road segments are reported in the national headline above.
Webcam highlights
A live look at Iceland right now, straight from the cameras.
Cars & campers
KEF airport pickup 24/74.8
Transmission
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Seats
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SleepsTours near Iceland's highlights
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