Road 21 Muonio river view
Muonio, Finland
Looks along the Muonionjoki river towards the fells; a few street lights on the right at night.
Northern lights tonight in Enontekiö (Hetta)
Live hourly aurora score for Enontekiö (Hetta), Finland: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Lapland, Finland, 68.38°N 23.65°ELevi guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.
Road 21 Hietajoki
Hietajoki, Enontekiö, Finland
Open bog landscape with a flat horizon and lots of sky; infrared B/W at night.
Road 79 Äkäsjärvi
Äkäsjärvi, Muonio, Finland
Wide lake view with a low forest horizon and plenty of sky; infrared B/W at night.
Levi Fell Live Stream, Köngäs
Köngäs, Kittilä, Finnish Lapland
Private camera in Köngäs looking towards Levi Fell; the ski resort lights are distant.
Starlapland Northern Light Live – Levi (north view)
Levi, Finnish Lapland · Seasonal
North-facing live stream; the video id changes if the stream restarts.
Restaurant Tuikku 360° webcam – Levi
Levi fell, Kittilä, Finland
360° panorama camera at Restaurant Tuikku on Levi fell.
Road 940 Äkäslompolo
Äkäslompolo, Kolari, Finland
Lake view towards Äkäslompolo village and the Ylläs fells; some village lights, B/W at night.
Road 21 Ropinsalmi
Ropinsalmi, Enontekiö, Finland
Lake and rounded fells under a big sky; B/W at night, with birches lit in the foreground.
Road 9401 Ylläs aurora camera
Ylläs, Kolari, Finland
Fintraffic's dedicated aurora camera on the Ylläs scenic road; infrared B/W at night, sky in the top half.
Northern lights in Enontekiö (Hetta): what to expect
- Latitude
- 68.38° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 65.6°
- Kp needed
- 1+
- Clear-night chance
- ~71%
Enontekiö (Hetta) lies at 68.38° N in Lapland, Finland, about 203 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 65.6°, it sits under the auroral oval: even quiet nights (Kp 1–2) can bring aurora overhead. Over the long term, a dark, clear night here has roughly a 71% chance of some visible aurora.
Darkness is never the problem in winter: the sun stays below the horizon from early December to early January, and nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from late August to mid-April. Between late May and mid-July the midnight sun makes aurora impossible to see. Around the winter solstice the sun is more than 12° below the horizon for about 16 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights. Long-term records for Levi, 80 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 68% in March, the clearest month of the season, so roughly 32% of nights are clear then. Check the cloud layers in the hourly forecast above: a short drive can make the difference when cloud is patchy.
Coordinates: Wikipedia. Magnetic latitude, Kp and darkness are calculated from them; the clear-night chance is a long-term average, not a forecast.