OneShetland
Visiting Shetland
Here for a few days, or ashore for one? This is what's actually happening while you're here — kept up to date by the folk who live here, not a guidebook written three years ago.
🗺 Plan my day →While you're here
What's on
Wed 12 AugCunningsburgh Show 2026
Cunningsburgh
- Thu 13 Aug
Rising North Music Festival
Tue 25 AugNorah Howie Psychic Medium
Mareel - Music - Cinema and Education Venue
- Sun 30 Aug
Fetlar Hall Sunday Teas
Fetlar Hall
Sun 27 SeptShetland Wool Week 2026
- Sat 3 Oct
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Howling at the Moon
Mareel - Music - Cinema and Education Venue
Thu 8 OctShetland Accordion & Fiddle Festival 2026
- Wed 14 Oct
Voe Social Club
Voe
Where to go
Eat, stay and explore
South Ham
Noness
North Ham
Mousa Sound Viewpoint
Out Skerries Lighthouse
Point of the Pund
Sumburgh Head Lighthouse
Suther Ness Lighthouse
Lunna Holm
Kantonella Memorial
Norwegian ship "Kantonella" was wrecked on Yell in February 1941 whilst carrying refugees from nazi-occupied Norway. Everyone aboard was killed.
Hermaness National Nature Reserve
Keen of Hamar Nature Reserve
Made here
Something to take home
Bought direct from the maker — or posted on if you'd rather travel light.
Good to know
Cruise ship days
When the big ships are in, Lerwick is busy. Handy either way.
The wirds
A bit of Shetland dialect
crappin
Seasoned fish livers cooked in head
försday
day between Wednesday and Friday
bluster
mossy turf or peat from bogs
eever
An exceptionally large physical object
ert
well known, recognised, and familiar
fastibaand
ordinary, widely encountered or usual
fin
to find
fitch
to fidget or move uneasily
There's a lot more of it
Tides, daylight and the weather where you are, the full events calendar, every shop on the islands, and 2,800 words of dialect.