Northern lights tonight in Ísafjörður

Live hourly aurora score for Ísafjörður, Iceland: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.

Westfjords, Iceland, 66.08°N 23.13°WReykjavík guide

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Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.

Northern lights in Ísafjörður: what to expect

Latitude
66.08° N
Magnetic latitude
67.6°
Kp needed
Any
Clear-night chance
~75%

Ísafjörður lies at 66.08° N in Westfjords, Iceland, about 54 km south of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 67.6°, 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 75% 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 (mid-June to early 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. The hourly score above uses the live cloud forecast for this exact spot; for trip planning, the Reykjavík guide (222 km away) covers the best months and clear-night odds for the wider region.

Coordinates: Wikipedia. Magnetic latitude, Kp and darkness are calculated from them; the clear-night chance is a long-term average, not a forecast.