Road conditions in Iceland, right now.

The Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration (Vegagerðin) grades every serviced road in the country through the day. This is that map, in English: what is clear, what is slippery and what is closed, refreshed every five minutes. The official source stays umferdin.is; check it again before you set off, or call 1777 for road information.

Live from Vegagerðin, 2026-11-11 12:45 UTC. Refreshed every five minutes.

Every monitored road, coloured by its current condition. Tap a road to see what it's like. Zoom with ⌘/Ctrl and scroll, or two fingers on a phone.

What the terms mean

Vegagerðin's crews grade the roads and update the map from 07:00 to 22:00 between 1 October and 30 April, and from 08:00 to 16:00 the rest of the year. The wording below follows their own definitions.

Clear: Vegagerðin calls it 'easily passable': at least one wheel track in each lane free of ice, and too little snow elsewhere to matter.
Icy patches: Ice or packed snow on up to a fifth of the stretch, usually bridges and shaded bends.
Slippery: Hard ice or packed snow on more than a fifth of the stretch.
Extremely slippery: Sheet ice, or wet ice and wet packed snow, on more than a fifth of the stretch. Stay off it if you can.
Snow or slush: Up to 10 cm of wet or loose snow on the road.
Snow cover: Snow lying on the road surface.
Slush: Wet, slushy snow on the road surface.
Difficult driving: 10 to 20 cm of loose snow or small drifts; unsafe for anything but a four-wheel drive.
Difficult road conditions: More than 20 cm of snow or drifts; unsafe for anything but large SUVs, off-road and bigger vehicles.
Impassable: Snow, a landslide or a flood has made it impassable for normal vehicles. Highland roads are set to this after the first autumn snowfall and stay closed until Vegagerðin opens them, between late May and July. Do not attempt it.
Closed: Closed by the Road Administration.
Storm: A storm warning posted on the stretch. The map shows the road in its surface colour. Wait it out.
No report right now: No condition report for this stretch at the moment: it is outside Vegagerðin's reporting hours, or it is a road with no winter service and no regular grading. It is not the same as closed, and not the same as open; check umferdin.is for that stretch.
Unknown: Vegagerðin has no information on this stretch yet. It is not the same as clear; check umferdin.is for that stretch.
4x4 mountain vehicles only: Open, but only to high-clearance four-wheel drives. Most rental contracts exclude 2WD cars from F-roads.

What is not clear right now

Clear

975 of 1,568

monitored stretches of road are clear right now

Closed

7 stretches · Closed by the Road Administration.

Route 435, near Mosfellsbær (2 stretches)
Route 864, 39 km from Mývatn (5 stretches)

Impassable

90 stretches · Impassable for normal vehicles, from snow, landslides or floods; highland roads are set to this after the first autumn snowfall. Do not attempt it.

Route 26, 73 km from Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Route 208, 55 km from Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Route 210, near Hvolsvöllur
Route 214, near Vík í Mýrdal
Route 222, 19 km from Vík í Mýrdal
Route 337, near Laugarvatn
Route 570, near Ólafsvík
Route 578, 25 km from Hvammstangi (2 stretches)
Route 734, 48 km from Varmahlíð (2 stretches)
Route 756, 34 km from Varmahlíð (2 stretches)
Route 901, 61 km from Mývatn (3 stretches)
Route 907, 56 km from Egilsstaðir
and 34 more roads

Storm

8 stretches · Storm on the road; wait it out.

Route 1, 18 km from Djúpivogur (8 stretches)

Icy patches

148 stretches · Ice or packed snow on up to a fifth of the stretch, usually bridges and shaded bends.

Route 1, near Akureyri (19 stretches)
Route 35, 22 km from Reykholt (9 stretches)
Route 36, 17 km from Laugarvatn (4 stretches)
Route 60, 33 km from Þingeyri (3 stretches)
Route 61, 19 km from Seyðisfjörður (6 stretches)
Route 62, 15 km from Patreksfjörður
Route 68, 25 km from Hvammstangi (2 stretches)
Route 73, near Blönduós (2 stretches)
Route 76, near Ólafsfjörður (9 stretches)
Route 82, near Ólafsfjörður (5 stretches)
Route 83, near Akureyri (5 stretches)
Route 84, near Akureyri
and 25 more roads

Slippery

79 stretches · Hard ice or packed snow on more than a fifth of the stretch.

Route 1, near Mývatn (18 stretches)
Route 37, near Laugarvatn (3 stretches)
Route 60, near Flateyri (4 stretches)
Route 84, 15 km from Akureyri
Route 85, 42 km from Vopnafjörður (8 stretches)
Route 87, near Laugar (3 stretches)
Route 93, 19 km from Egilsstaðir (5 stretches)
Route 95, 24 km from Reyðarfjörður (2 stretches)
Route 365, near Laugarvatn
Route 848, near Mývatn (2 stretches)
Route 864, 41 km from Mývatn
Route 874, near Raufarhöfn (3 stretches)
and 11 more roads

Snow cover

4 stretches · Snow-covered road.

Route 920, 15 km from Vopnafjörður
Route 953, near Eskifjörður (3 stretches)

Snow showers

20 stretches · Showers of snow, visibility comes and goes.

Route 1, near Akureyri (10 stretches)
Route 85, near Þórshöfn (3 stretches)
Route 91, near Bakkafjörður
Route 820, near Akureyri
Route 821, near Akureyri (3 stretches)
Route 822, near Akureyri
Route 8310, near Akureyri

4x4 mountain vehicles only

1 stretch · Open only to high-clearance four-wheel drives; used for highland tracks once they open.

Route F575, near Hellissandur

No report right now

212 stretches · No condition report for this stretch at the moment: outside Vegagerðin's reporting hours, or a road with no winter service. Not the same as closed; check umferdin.is for it.

Route 26, 26 km from Flúðir (8 stretches)
Route 32, 29 km from Flúðir (2 stretches)
Route 35, 39 km from Reykholt (9 stretches)
Route 41, near Vogar (5 stretches)
Route 43, near Grindavík (2 stretches)
Route 44, near Reykjanesbær (2 stretches)
Route 49, near Seltjarnarnes
Route 52, 20 km from Laugarvatn (3 stretches)
Route 58, 33 km from Stykkishólmur (2 stretches)
Route 63, 20 km from Patreksfjörður (4 stretches)
Route 65, near Suðureyri (2 stretches)
Route 82, near Ólafsfjörður (4 stretches)
and 97 more roads

Unknown

24 stretches · No report from this stretch yet.

Route 643, 36 km from Hólmavík (6 stretches)
Route 645, near Hólmavík
Route 646, 35 km from Hólmavík
Route 833, near Akureyri (2 stretches)
Route 835, 19 km from Hrísey (4 stretches)
Route 842, 26 km from Mývatn (4 stretches)
Route 844, 23 km from Mývatn (2 stretches)
Route 862, 34 km from Mývatn (2 stretches)
Route 886, 36 km from Mývatn
Route 887, 39 km from Mývatn

Before you drive

Iceland closes roads fast in a storm, and reopens them just as fast. Check the road and the weather together: yellow, orange and red warnings are at vedur.is, and safetravel.is lists the closures that matter to visitors. Highland F-roads open between late May and July, when Vegagerðin says so, not when the snow looks gone. In an emergency, call 112.

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