
Temperatures in both the winter and summer are moderate due to the geography of the location: the average January highs are still above freezing despite a high latitude. Trondheim Airport Værnes is used as the official meteorological office for this region. Temperatures in Hell can reach −25 ☌ (−13 ☏) during winter.īritish punk band The Boys recorded their third album in the village, and as a result named it To Hell with the Boys. Īmong English-speaking tourists, popular postcards depict the station with a heavy frost on the ground, making a visual joke about "Hell frozen over". In modern Norwegian, the word for hell is helvete. The Old Norse word Hel is the same as today's English Hell, and as a proper noun, Hel was the ruler of Hel. It has a more common homonym in modern Norwegian that means "luck". The name Hell stems from the Old Norse word hellir, which means "overhang" or "cliff cave". A smaller building on the railway station has been given the sign Gods-expedition, which is the archaic spelling of the word for " goods handling" ( godsekspedisjon would be the spelling in the contemporary Norwegian language). The village of Hell has become a minor tourist attraction because of its name, as visitors often have their photograph taken in front of the station sign. The new road now goes around the village. Until late 1995, the European route E6 highway was aligned through Hell and across the Hell bridge to Sandfærhus (nearby is the Trondheim Airport, Værnes).

Hell currently has a grocery store, gas station, a fast food shop, and a retirement home.

Hell is a post town with two post codes: 7517 for delivery route addresses and 7570 for post-office boxes. The 1.04-square-kilometre (260-acre) village has a population (2018) of 1,589 and a population density of 1,528 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,960/sq mi). It is located in the western part of the municipality, about 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of the town of Stjørdalshalsen. Hell ( Urban East Norwegian:, Trøndersk: ) is a village in the Lånke area of the municipality of Stjørdal in Trøndelag county, Norway.
