Dagali is a small mountain village in

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Summary

Dagali is located in Hol municipality. The village stretches from

Pålsbufjorden Pålsbufjorden is a lake in the municipalities of Hol and Nore og Uvdal, both in Buskerud County, Norway. The water table lies 749 meters above sea level. The area of the lake is . The Pålsbu kraftverk hydro-electric plant was built to extract ...

on the east to the border of the

Hardangervidda National Park Hardangervidda National Park ( en, Hardanger Plateau National Park, no, Hardangervidda nasjonalpark), at , is Norway's largest national park. It spans from Numedal and Uvdal in the east and Røvelseggi and Ullensvang in the west across the Harda ...

in the west, a distance of approximately 40 km. The river

Numedalslågen Numedalslågen is a river located in the counties of Vestfold and Telemark and Viken in southeastern Norway. It is one of the longest rivers in Norway. Location Numedalslågen stretches for over through the counties of Vestfold and Telemark and ...

runs through the village. Dagali had an airport,

Geilo Airport, Dagali Geilo Airport, Dagali ( no, Geilo flyplass, Dagali; formerly ; ) is a private airport located at Dagali in Hol in Viken county, Norway. It was previously a public airport that was both a regional airport and served international tourist charter ...

, that is no longer in use. The site is currently used by Dagali Opplevelser, which offers outdoor recreational activities including water rafting and snowmobiling. Dagali Church (''Dagali kirke'') dates from 1850. The church was constructed of wood and has the seating capacity of around 200 people. Dagali church was rebuilt and restored during 1972–73. Dagali Church is located off

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Rv 40, about 25 kilometres from

Geilo is a centre in the municipality of Hol in Viken county, Norway. Geilo is primarily a ski resort town, with around 2,500 inhabitants. It is situated in the valley of Hallingdal, 250 km from Oslo and 260 km from Bergen. The Bergen Line ...

. Climate Dagali features a

subarctic The subarctic zone is a region in the Northern Hemisphere immediately south of the true Arctic, north of humid continental regions and covering much of Alaska, Canada, Iceland, the north of Scandinavia, Siberia, and the Cairngorms. Generally, ...

climate (

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Dfc) with cold, extremely snowy winters and somewhat cool summers, typical of higher altitudes (798m asl). Dagali airport weather station has some of the coldest temperatures in Southern Norway with a mean temperature in the coldest month (January) of -11,2 °C for the period 2001 to present. This is especially true considering how much the climate of Norway has warmed only in the last decades. Precipitation remains moderate at 515mm yearly (Fagerlund 871m asl - 1958-88) for one of the two weather stations there (one no longer in usage).

Weather charts

Averages from the no longer operational Dagali-Fagerlund and extremes. Back then, January averaged -8.9 and July averaged 10.8 making it still a subarctic (Dfc) climate.

References

External links

Dagali Opplevelser - offering a great deal of activities in and around Dagali

Rafting in Numedalslågen River

Dagali Skisenter - The alpine resort in Dagali
Villages in Buskerud Populated places on the Numedalslågen {{buskerud-geo-stub