The event took place from 12 to 15 August 2021 and is part of the 2021 UCI Women's World Tour.

[1] This edition is expected to be the last stand-alone Ladies Tour of Norway, as the race is set to expand to a six-day tour of Scandinavia (the Battle of the North) in 2022 that will also visit Denmark and Sweden.

[3] FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope, Liv Racing, Team BikeExchange, and Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank were the only teams to not enter a full squad of six riders; these four teams each entered five riders.

[4][5] UCI Women's WorldTeams UCI Women's Continental Teams National Teams The 2021 Ladies Tour of Norway took place in the county of Viken in Eastern Norway, with most of the race in the Østfold region.

[6] For the first time in the race's history, it featured a mountaintop finish, with a 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) long climb to Norefjell ski resort on stage 3.