Sommarøy or Sommerøya is an old fishing village in the western part of Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway.

It is located about 36 kilometres (22 mi) west of the city of Tromsø and is a popular tourist destination due to its white sand beaches and scenery.

[3] The original settlement site was on the neighboring island of Hillesøya where the old Hillesøy Church was located.

This is then followed by long polar nights from November to January, when the sun does not rise at all due to the location north of the Arctic Circle.

In June 2019, Innovation Norway conducted a marketing campaign[4] – called fake news by some[5][6][7] – claiming that local inhabitants wanted Sommarøy to declare itself as the world's first time-free zone and had petitioned the Norwegian government to abolish civil time on the island.