Live Aurora from Reykjavík
Reykjavík, Iceland
24/7 stream from the northern lights museum, with Kp, Bz and local time on screen.
Live hourly aurora score for Ísafjörður, Iceland: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Reykjavík, Iceland
24/7 stream from the northern lights museum, with Kp, Bz and local time on screen.
Golden Circle, south-west Iceland
Aurora Reykjavík's second camera, outside the city; exact location not published.
Akureyri, North Iceland
Town camera in Akureyri, North Iceland's capital, about 50 km from Mývatn.
Aðaldalshraun lava field, North Iceland · Seasonal
Northern-sky stream from a remote cabin between Húsavík and Akureyri, far from city lights.
near Hella, South Iceland
Two live cameras at a country hotel near Hella in South Iceland.
Hvolsvöllur, South Iceland
Live camera set up for the northern lights in South Iceland; watch it on the operator's page.
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.