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Approaching Orphir Village, Orkney
Orphir. Photo: Ruth Sharville, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Orphir

Dive town · UK

Score a trip to Orphir

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Beds: 3 places

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3 places to stay within 2 km.

Prices are our estimate of the country's average double room of each kind that month: not this town's price, and not a quote.

Room photos are examples, not these hotels (credits).

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Spots near here: 2 dive sites

Dive · this week

Each score is the next week's out of 100, the mean of its best days, as on its own page. Green clears the bar. Distances are from the middle of Orphir.

Map

the town and every place near it

Each place is ringed by its best day this week: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 20 km from Orphir.

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Photos of Orphir

Houses at Orphir, Orkney
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Orphir Christmas tree 2025
Photo: C1614, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Orphir Community School, Oakney
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Orphir

where it is, what is near

Orphir is a town in Orkney Islands, United Kingdom.

From Orphir you can reach 2 dive sites.

The nearest is SMS König, a dive site 7.6 km from the centre.

Overture lists 3 places to stay within 2 km of the centre.

The nearest airport is Kirkwall Airport (KOI), 13 km away.

In Orkney Islands · Scotland · United Kingdom

  • 3 places to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: Kirkwall Airport (KOI), 13 km, Eday Airport (EOI), 35 km, Wick John O'Groats Airport (WIC), 53 km

Forecast updated . Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Scores are the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change them (how we score, how we earn).