IRF Kiruna all-sky camera
Kiruna, Sweden · Seasonal
The institute's real-time all-sky camera; only meaningful after dark.
Northern lights tonight in Jukkasjärvi
Live hourly aurora score for Jukkasjärvi, Sweden: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Norrbotten, Sweden, 67.85°N 20.62°EKiruna guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.RISK clubhouse camera – Luossavaara, Kiruna
Luossavaara, Kiruna, Sweden
Panning camera on Luossavaara: the mine, the western mountains and, when clear, Kebnekaise.
Dundret webcams – Gällivare
Gällivare, Sweden
Ski-resort cameras on Dundret mountain above Gällivare in Swedish Lapland.
Lights Over Lapland aurora webcams
Abisko National Park, Sweden
Northwest still view plus two live streams (Twitch); link only until permission is granted.
Road 21 Ropinsalmi
Ropinsalmi, Enontekiö, Finland
Lake and rounded fells under a big sky; B/W at night, with birches lit in the foreground.
Live Björkliden – Hotell Fjället
Björkliden near Abisko, Sweden
Hotell Fjället with Noulja and the Lapporten valley behind, just west of Abisko.
Road 21 Hietajoki
Hietajoki, Enontekiö, Finland
Open bog landscape with a flat horizon and lots of sky; infrared B/W at night.
Nature of Jokkmokk – Porjus cameras
Porjus, Jokkmokk, Sweden
North and west views from Porjus on the Lule River, north of the Arctic Circle.
Road 21 Saarikoski
Saarikoski, Enontekiö, Finland
Open fell country with distant peaks and a wide sky; infrared B/W at night.
Northern lights in Jukkasjärvi: what to expect
- Latitude
- 67.85° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 65.5°
- Kp needed
- 1+
- Clear-night chance
- ~70%
Jukkasjärvi lies at 67.85° N in Norrbotten, Sweden, about 143 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 65.5°, 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 70% chance of some visible aurora.
Darkness is never the problem in winter: the sun stays below the horizon from early December to early January, and nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from late August to mid-April. Between late May and mid-July the midnight sun makes aurora impossible to see. Around the winter solstice the sun is more than 12° below the horizon for about 15.5 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights. Long-term records for Kiruna, 16 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 67% in March, the clearest month of the season, so roughly 33% 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.