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Village in Giske Municipality, Norway

Alnes

Alnes is a small village in Giske Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.

Alnes
Alnes · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Alnes is a small village in Giske Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the (isolated) north side of the island of Godøya, about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) northwest of the village of Leitebakk. The rest of the island's population is located on the southern half of the island, separated from Alnes by a large mountain. Alnes is accessible through a tunnel through the mountainous center part of the island. It is possible to reach from Ålesund by city bus.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alnes

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Alnes Lighthouse

    Alnes Lighthouse was established in 1852 to guide fishing boats safely to the harbor of the small fishing community of Alnes on the north side of the island of Godøya in Giske Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The lighthouse sits about 4 kilometres northwest of Leitebakk.

    500 m · lighthouse in Norway · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Godøy Chapel

    Godøy Chapel is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Giske Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the small island of Godøy.

    2.8 km · chapel in Giske, Norway · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Alnes

Airports
Ålesund (AES), 11 km · Bergen, Flesland (BGO), 247 km · Trondheim, Værnes (TRD), 272 km
  • Bergen → Alnes
    624 km · quickest by air, 7h 52m · kr1,220–2,020
  • Trondheim → Alnes
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · kr90–120
  • Oslo (Gardermoen) → Alnes
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alnes

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alnes. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThis route requires taking quite a few ferries in either direction which makes it take as long to Trondheim as the ferry-less E136/E6 combo but more expensive.

From Wikivoyage: Ålesund, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Yell, Unst and the North IslesGB

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    430 km
  2. 02
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 35 sources

    622 km
  3. 03
    Faroe IslandsFO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    664 km
  4. 04
    LofotenNO

    7 ways of moving, 12 sources

    752 km
  5. 05
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    790 km

If you know how people move in Alnes – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Alnes

  • Leitebakksettlement in Giske Municipality, Norway2.8 km