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
- Sat 26 Sept
ZZ TEST — Acceptance Event (not a real event)
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
Fri 16 OctCalum MacPhail Live
Mareel - Music - Cinema and Education Venue
- Fri 30 Oct
Gary Meikle: Yer Maw
Mareel - Music - Cinema and Education Venue
Tue 26 JanLerwick Junior Up Helly Aa
Lerwick
Where to go
Eat, stay and explore
ZZ TEST — OneShetland Acceptance Fixture
Internal OneShetland launch-acceptance fixture. This is NOT a real business. Created for controlled A5 device testing and safe to delete once acceptance is complete.
Mousa Sound Viewpoint
Noness
North Ham
South Ham
Keen of Hamar Nature Reserve
Hermaness National Nature Reserve
Fetlar to Haroldswick Marine Protected Area
Kantonella Memorial
Norwegian ship "Kantonella" was wrecked on Yell in February 1941 whilst carrying refugees from nazi-occupied Norway. Everyone aboard was killed.
King Harald Street Playpark
Nort Trow Community Garden
Muckle Flugga Lighthouse
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.