LAVA Centre northern lights webcam
Hvolsvöllur, South Iceland
Live camera set up for the northern lights in South Iceland; watch it on the operator's page.
Northern lights tonight in Hella
Live hourly aurora score for Hella, Iceland: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
South Iceland, Iceland, 63.83°N 20.40°WReykjavík guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Landhotel northern lights live
near Hella, South Iceland
Two live cameras at a country hotel near Hella in South Iceland.
Live Aurora stream from the Golden Circle
Golden Circle, south-west Iceland
Aurora Reykjavík's second camera, outside the city; exact location not published.
Live Aurora from Reykjavík
Reykjavík, Iceland
24/7 stream from the northern lights museum, with Kp, Bz and local time on screen.
Akureyri – Rósenborg
Akureyri, North Iceland
Town camera in Akureyri, North Iceland's capital, about 50 km from Mývatn.
LIVE Iceland – 4K aurora real-time sky camera
Aðaldalshraun lava field, North Iceland · Seasonal
Northern-sky stream from a remote cabin between Húsavík and Akureyri, far from city lights.
Northern lights in Hella: what to expect
- Latitude
- 63.83° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 64.8°
- Kp needed
- 1+
- Clear-night chance
- ~63%
Hella lies at 63.83° N in South Iceland, about 303 km south of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 64.8°, 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 63% chance of some visible 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 15 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights. Long-term records for Reykjavík, 83 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 72% in December, 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.