Loen Skylift – Hoven 360° webcam
Loen, Nordfjord, Norway
Mountain-top panorama at Hoven above Nordfjord in western Norway.
Northern lights tonight in Ålesund
Live hourly aurora score for Ålesund, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Møre og Romsdal, Norway, 62.47°N 6.15°ELofoten Islands guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Auroracam @ Evatun – Dagali
Dagali, Buskerud, Norway
Private all-sky camera at Dagali on the edge of Hardangervidda, southern Norway.
Northern lights in Ålesund: what to expect
- Latitude
- 62.47° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 62.0°
- Kp needed
- 2+
- Clear-night chance
- ~41%
Ålesund lies at 62.47° N in Møre og Romsdal, Norway, about 455 km south of the Arctic Circle. Its geomagnetic latitude of about 62.0° is just south of the usual auroral oval. Aurora is seen on many active nights, often low in the northern sky, and the oval's edge reaches this far south from about Kp 2. A dark, clear night has roughly a 41% chance of some aurora.
Nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from mid-August to late April; in the light summer nights between, the aurora cannot be seen. Around the winter solstice the sun is more than 12° below the horizon for about 14.5 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights, and we have no long-term cloud record near Ålesund. The hourly score above uses the live cloud forecast for this exact spot, so on a storm night it shows whether the sky is open where you are.
Coordinates: Wikipedia. Magnetic latitude, Kp and darkness are calculated from them; the clear-night chance is a long-term average, not a forecast.