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Sigluförður is a small fishing town in a narrow fjord with the same name on the northern coast of Iceland.

The population in 2011 was 1,206; the town has been shrinking in size since the 1950s when the town reached its peak of 3,000 inhabitants.

Sigluförður is the site of The Herring Era Museum, a maritime museum which opened in 1994.

Sigluförður is famous for its Herring Festival which is held every year in August, and for its Herring Museum which can be visited in Róaldsbakki, a historic building dating from 1907.

Þjóðlagahátíðin á Siglufirði is a music festival which is held every year in July. The town is famous for Bjarni Þorsteinsson (1861-1938), a composer and priest who lived in Sigluförður from 1888 on. He collected many old folk songs which had nearly been forgotten and published them again between 1906 and 1909. The oldest house in town dating from 1884 was transformed into a Bjarni Þorsteinsson Museum referring to traditional Icelandic folk music and to historical musical instruments.

Siglufjarðarkirkja, a Protestant church consecrated in 1932, has 400 seats. With a length of 35 metres and a breadth of 12 metres, it is comparatively large. The two large clocks on its tower, which is 30 metres in height, were donated by the Savings Bank in 1932. Inside the church there is a sightworthy altar painting dating from 1726 which shows the Last Supper. The colourful church windows were created by the German artist Maria Katzgrau (1913-1998) and added in 1974. Ragnar Kjartansson, an Icelandic artist, created the tall sculpture Síldveiði (Herring Fishing) which can be seen in front of the church. Lífsbjórg, another sightworthy memorial which was unveiled close to the harbour in 1988, refers to 62 seamen from Sigluförður who lost their lives on sea between 1900 and 1988.

One of the oldest buildings in town is Sæbyhús, a wooden house which was built in 1886 and enlarged in 1915.

Norska sjómannaheimilið is a large wooden residential building which was built in 1915 for Norwegian seamen working in Sigluförður. It was also used as a medical center for injured and sick seamen. The wood had been prepared in Haugesund in Norway before the construction. Today the building which was renovated in 1986 and is used as a conservatoire.

The dual Héðinsfjörður Tunnels, with a total length of 11 km (6.8 mi), were dug between Sigluförður and Ólafsfjörður to connect with the region of Eyjafjörður in the east, and opened on 2 October 2010. Sigluförður was already connected by the 800 m tunnel Strákagöng to the west; it used to be the town's only road connection open year-round. That tunnel was completed in 1967 and before then the only road to the town was a narrow mountain pass between Sigluförður and Héðinsfjörður, open only during the summer. The new tunnel opened interesting mountain tracks and trout fishing opportunities to those without boats and unwilling to walk the old trail.

The old road to Sigluförður is open during the summer. It is the highest mountain road in Iceland and is used today for hiking, horse riding and pleasure driving. Sigluförður has developed into the Icelandic centre of winter sports. There are two ski lifts and a ski jump hill. In January 2021, the ski area of Sigluförður was destroyed by a snowslide.