Changelog

A board for the walking routes people use in winter — Gilið, the church steps, the shore path, the way to the pool, the hospital and school. When you have been out, tap a route to say whether it was cleared, slippery or not cleared yet. The town's own clearing order, the grit boxes you can use, and its report form are on the same page.

Find your neighbourhood and see when mixed rubbish and food scraps, and paper and plastic, are next collected. Terra prints the two on separate 2026 calendars with different maps, so until now you had to read both; the dates here are read from those calendars, and the colours match the printed ones.

Sjúkratryggingar reimburse two-thirds of the fare on four journeys a calendar year — and the part that is easy to miss, your own share is capped at 1.500 kr. for a journey there and back, whatever the flight cost. The page works that out for a flight, a bus or your own car at the current 41,01 kr. a kilometre, shows every line of the arithmetic, and names the regulation each figure comes from. Two things it corrects along the way: the doctor-signed Skýrsla is not needed for the ordinary four trips, and there is no twelve-month claim deadline — the limit is two years, and it sits in the Act rather than the regulation.

The waste section had taken the recycling yard's opening hours from a different facility's page, which is how the wrong hours reached Who to Call. It now carries the municipality's own hours, the two waste contractors and which one to ring for what, and links to the 2026 collection calendars. The parking section was four years out of date: the rates, the resident and lease card prices, the fines and the appeal deadlines are all re-read from Akureyrarbær, and the three meter locations corrected.

The page had the Gámasvæði opening at 10:00 on weekdays and closing on Sundays. It opens at 13:00 and is open every day: 13:00–20:00 on summer weekdays, 13:00–18:00 in winter, 13:00–17:00 at weekends. It also listed the yard under Terra; the yard and the neighbourhood recycling points are run by Íslenska gámafélagið, on 577 5757, while Terra does the kerbside collection on 414 0200. Both numbers are now on the page, along with Norðurorka for a water or power outage.

Vegagerðin's roadside masts on Öxnadalsheiði and Víkurskarð measure the temperature of the road surface itself, which can sit below freezing while the air above it does not — and no forecast can tell you that. The new page shows those readings as they come in, alongside the calmest stretches of the next three days, so a drive that can wait can be moved. It ranks hours against each other and never calls any of them safe: whether the road is open is Vegagerðin's answer, and it is linked on the page.

Yellow, orange and red warnings from Veðurstofa Íslands for the region, in the Met Office's own words, with the wind at the head of the fjord beside them. It is worth reading next to the road page: a wind or snow warning is usually why Öxnadalsheiði or Víkurskarð shuts, and the warning normally comes first. The same feed now serves every Icelandic town on the platform.

A colored-pencil banner of Akureyri climbing from its harbour, Akureyrarkirkja's stepped towers over the town and snow-streaked mountains across the fjord.

Akureyri, at the head of Eyjafjörður, is the first Icelandic town on Town Tools. It opens with a live winter road-conditions page for the passes out of town — Öxnadalsheiði toward Reykjavík, Víkurskarð and the Vaðlaheiðargöng tunnel — read from Vegagerðin's own road service; a Daylight Today page that tracks the big swing of light at 65.7°N; and a who-to-call card. More Akureyri tools are on the backlog.