Rørosmartnan (Røros Winter Market)
Rørosmartnan (Røros Winter Market) takes place Feb 16 - 20, 2027 (always the second-to-last Tuesday of February through Saturday) in Røros, Norway. The dress code is Heavy winter layers and genuinely warm boots - Roros regularly posts Norway's lowest temperatures. Smart-warm for evening concerts in the church and old buildings. Typical cost ranges from 350 to 900 EUR per person.
A market first held in 1854 in the UNESCO-listed copper-mining town of Roros, opened by a procession of horse-drawn sleighs that have travelled for two weeks to get there. Around 250 stalls line streets of 1700s timber houses selling local food, hides, wool and craft, in cold that regularly bottoms out below -20C. Living heritage rather than reenactment, and the fairytale setting is the real draw.
- When
- Feb 16 - 20, 2027 (always the second-to-last Tuesday of February through Saturday)
- Where
- Røros, Norway
- Dress code
- Heavy winter layers and genuinely warm boots - Roros regularly posts Norway's lowest temperatures. Smart-warm for evening concerts in the church and old buildings.
- Cost
- Typical cost ranges from 350 to 900 EUR per person.
- Weather
- -10 to -25C, dry cold, snow-packed streets and woodsmoke
- When to book
- Book Roros accommodation 6 - 9 months ahead; the town's beds sell out and latecomers end up in Os or Tynset.
- Getting there
- TRD (Trondheim), about 2 hr 15 min drive; direct trains also run from Trondheim and Oslo to Roros station
- Where to stay
- Bergstadens Hotel (the grand old town hotel, central to the market street), Vertshuset Roros (historic timber inn with apartments), Erzscheidergaarden (small, warm and family-run, right by the church)
- Official site
- https://rorosmartnan.no/english
How to attend
The street market and the Tuesday sleigh procession are free and open to all. Concerts, the church programme and some indoor events are ticketed at roughly EUR 20 - 50 through rorosmartnan.no once the programme is published in the new year. Take the train straight into Roros, which drops you in the middle of the market. Book lodging months ahead; day-tripping from Trondheim is possible but you miss the evening.
The market itself is free to walk into and the organiser states that most concert tickets are sold at the door, so there is no single booking page to link to.
Insider tip
Be on Bergmannsgata at noon on the Tuesday for the opening - eighty-plus horse-drawn sleighs come down the hill after a two-week journey, and it is over in about twenty minutes.
Get inside Rørosmartnan (Røros Winter Market)
Booking matters here: book Roros accommodation 6 - 9 months ahead; the town's beds sell out and latecomers end up in Os or Tynset. Members track that window, what it really costs, and 573 more events across the season.
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