Official Name: | Tafjord |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Møre og Romsdal#Norway |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Møre og Romsdal |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Western Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Møre og Romsdal |
Subdivision Name3: | Sunnmøre |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Fjord Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 6213 Tafjord |
Coordinates: | 62.2324°N 7.4177°W |
Elevation M: | 6 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Tafjord is a village in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is in a valley located at the end of the Tafjorden, about southeast of the municipal centre of Sylte, and just west of the borders of Reinheimen National Park. In the park, the mountains Tordsnose, Karitinden, and Puttegga all lie about to the southeast of Tafjord in the Tafjordfjella mountain range.
The village is very isolated and (other than by boat) the only way into the valley is by road from the village of Sylte. The road is composed almost entirely of two tunnels through the very steep mountains along the edge of the Tafjorden: the 5.3km (03.3miles) Heggur Tunnel and the 700m (2,300feet) long Skjegghammar Tunnel.
The weather station in Tafjord have been recording since 1925, and holds the record for the warmest temperature in Norway in November at . The January record was recorded the night before 29 January 2024. These warm temperatures in winter and late autumn are primarily due to foehn wind.
On 7 April 1934, a rockslide of about 2000000m2 of rock fell off the mountain Langhamaren from a height of about . The rock landed in the Tafjorden which created a local tsunami which killed 34 people[2] living on the shore of the fjord. The waves reached a height of near the landslide, about at Sylte, and about at Tafjord. It was one of the worst natural disasters in Norway in the 20th century.[3]