Fv17 Saltstraumen
Saltstraumen, Bodø, Nordland
Colour camera at the Saltstraumen bridge approach; fjord, village lights and a strip of sky.
Northern lights tonight in Fauske
Live hourly aurora score for Fauske, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Nordland, Norway, 67.26°N 15.39°ELofoten Islands guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Bodø weather cameras (Yr)
Bodø, Nordland, Norway
Three air-ambulance weather cameras in Bodø (north, north-east and west views).
Fv835 Engeløybrua
Engeløya, Steigen, Nordland
Colour bridge camera over the fjord; on clear nights stars show above the far-shore lights.
Svinøya Rorbuer northern lights live stream
Svolvær, Lofoten, Norway
Two live cameras at the Svinøya fishermen's cabins in Svolvær, Lofoten.
E6 Skjellesvikskaret
Skjellesvikskaret, Nordland, Norway
Mountain pass between steep slopes with a good patch of sky; infrared B/W at night.
E10 Kåkern bru
Kåkern bridge near Reine, Lofoten
View from the bridge towards the Reine peaks; the sky band is narrow but dark.
Fv82 Fiskebøl ferjekai
Fiskebøl ferry quay, Lofoten, Norway
Colour quay camera with a wide sky above the mountains; stars show on clear nights.
E10 Raftsundet
Raftsundet, Lofoten–Vesterålen
Mountains along Raftsundet with sky above the ridge line; infrared B/W at night.
Stokmarknes weather camera (Yr)
Stokmarknes, Vesterålen, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera at Stokmarknes, between Lofoten and Vesterålen.
Northern lights in Fauske: what to expect
- Latitude
- 67.26° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 65.6°
- Kp needed
- 1+
- Clear-night chance
- ~71%
Fauske lies at 67.26° N in Nordland, Norway, about 78 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.
Nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from late August to mid-April. Around midsummer the sun does not set at all (early June to mid-July), and the light nights either side rule out aurora. Around the winter solstice the sun is more than 12° below the horizon for about 15.5 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights. Long-term records for Lofoten Islands, 114 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 72% in September, the clearest month of the season, so roughly 28% 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.