Road 21 Hietajoki
Hietajoki, Enontekiö, Finland
Open bog landscape with a flat horizon and lots of sky; infrared B/W at night.
Northern lights tonight in Kautokeino
Live hourly aurora score for Kautokeino, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Finnmark, Norway, 69.01°N 23.04°EAlta guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.
Road 21 Ropinsalmi
Ropinsalmi, Enontekiö, Finland
Lake and rounded fells under a big sky; B/W at night, with birches lit in the foreground.
Road 21 Saarikoski
Saarikoski, Enontekiö, Finland
Open fell country with distant peaks and a wide sky; infrared B/W at night.
Road 21 Kilpisjärvi, Saana
Kilpisjärvi, Enontekiö, Finland
Faces Saana fell, roughly north-northwest of the village; bright lamps in the foreground at night.
Starlapland Northern Light Live – Kilpisjärvi (north view)
Kilpisjärvi, Finnish Lapland · Seasonal
North-facing live stream from Finland's far northwest, under dark skies.
TGO All-Sky Camera, Skibotn Observatory
Skibotn Observatory, Troms, Norway · Seasonal
Scientific all-sky camera; updates every minute when the Sun is 2° below the horizon.
Skibotn BACC 5 all-sky camera
Skibotn, Troms, Norway
Second all-sky camera at the Skibotn observatory, separate from TGO's own all-sky imager.
E8 Skibotn
Skibotn, Troms, Norway
Road camera looking towards Finland; narrow sky, mainly useful as a weather check.
Northern lights in Kautokeino: what to expect
- Latitude
- 69.01° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 66.3°
- Kp needed
- Any
- Clear-night chance
- ~75%
Kautokeino lies at 69.01° N in Finnmark, Norway, about 273 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 66.3°, 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.
Darkness is never the problem in winter: the sun stays below the horizon from late November to mid-January, and nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from late August to mid-April. Between late May and late July the midnight sun makes aurora impossible to see. Around the winter solstice the sun is more than 12° below the horizon for about 16 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights. Long-term records for Alta, 107 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 77% in September, the clearest month of the season, so roughly 23% 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.