Landhotel northern lights live
near Hella, South Iceland
Two live cameras at a country hotel near Hella in South Iceland.
Northern lights tonight in Jökulsárlón
Live hourly aurora score for Jökulsárlón, Iceland: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
South Iceland, Iceland, 64.07°N 16.21°WLake Mývatn guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.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.
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.
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.
Northern lights in Jökulsárlón: what to expect
- Latitude
- 64.07° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 64.5°
- Kp needed
- 1+
- Clear-night chance
- ~60%
Jökulsárlón lies at 64.07° N in South Iceland, about 277 km south of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 64.5°, 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 60% 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. The hourly score above uses the live cloud forecast for this exact spot; for trip planning, the Lake Mývatn guide (175 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.