As Martin suggests, I'll write my comment as an answer. We know by Bolzano-Weierstraß that every finite dimensional normed space is locally compact as its closed and bounded subsets are compact.
Interestingly enough is the converse also true. A locally compact normed space is finite dimensional. To see this we use the Riesz' lemma: If $X$ is a normed space, $U \subsetneq X$ a closed subspace, $\delta > 0$, then there is a $x \in X$ with $d(x,U) > 1- \delta$ and $\|x\| = 1$. If now $X$ is infinite dimensional we let $U_0 = \{0\}$ and choose by induction $x_n \in S_X$ (i. e. $\|x_n\| = 1$) with $d(x_n, U_{n-1}) > \frac 12$ and let $U_n := \mathrm{span}\,\{x_1, \ldots, x_n\}$. We can do so as $U_n$ is finite dimensional for every $n$ and such a closed proper subspace of $X$. Now $(x_n)$ is a sequence in $B_X$ with $\|x_n - x_m\| > \frac 12$ for $n \ne m$, hence has no convergent subsequence. If $X$ were locally compact, $0$ would have a compact nbhd $V$. We could choose $\epsilon > 0$ with $\epsilon B_X \subseteq V$. But $\epsilon B_X$ and hence $V$ contains a sequence without a convergent subsequence, so $V$ cannot be compact.
So a normed space is locally compact iff it is finite dimensional. This also holds for Hausdorff topological vector spaces, as you can see in this blog post by Terence Tao.