Hammerfest Havn Live
Hammerfest, Finnmark, Norway
Harbour of Hammerfest, one of the world's northernmost towns; harbour lights in view.
Northern lights tonight in Hammerfest
Live hourly aurora score for Hammerfest, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Finnmark, Norway, 70.66°N 23.68°EAlta guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.
E6 Aisaroaivi
Aisaroaivi, Sennalandet plateau (near Alta)
Open plateau with a wide horizon; shoots infrared black-and-white at night, so no aurora colour.
E6 Levddon
Levddon on the Alta–Skaidi road, Finnmark
Wide sky at 384 m; infrared black-and-white at night, so use it for cloud cover only.
E69 Vedbotn
Vedbotn, Porsanger, Finnmark
Sparsely lit fjord shore with a wide, dark sky above the mountain.
E69 Kamøyværkrysset
Kamøyvær, Nordkapp, Finnmark
Colour camera on the road to Nordkapp; open sky is visible above the hills.
Skarsvåg Live
Skarsvåg, North Cape, Norway
24/7 stream from a tiny fishing village near the North Cape; little light pollution.
Nordkapp Day & Night 360° webcam
North Cape, Finnmark, Norway
Panorama camera on the North Cape plateau in Finnmark.
Skjervøy weather camera (Yr)
Skjervøy, Troms, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera on the island of Skjervøy, north-east of Tromsø.
Northern lights in Hammerfest: what to expect
- Latitude
- 70.66° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 67.7°
- Kp needed
- Any
- Clear-night chance
- ~75%
Hammerfest lies at 70.66° N in Finnmark, Norway, about 456 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 67.7°, 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 75% chance of some visible aurora.
Darkness is never the problem in winter: the sun stays below the horizon from mid-November to late January, and nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from early September to early April. Between mid-May and late July the midnight sun makes aurora impossible to see. Around the winter solstice the sun is more than 12° below the horizon for about 16.5 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights. Long-term records for Alta, 79 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 77% in September, the clearest month of the season, so roughly 23% 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.