Northern lights tonight in Keflavík

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

Reykjanes, Iceland, 64.02°N 22.57°WReykjavík guide

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

Northern lights in Keflavík: what to expect

Latitude
64.02° N
Magnetic latitude
65.3°
Kp needed
1+
Clear-night chance
~68%

Keflavík lies at 64.02° N in Reykjanes, Iceland, about 283 km south of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 65.3°, 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 68% 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. Long-term records for Reykjavík, 34 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 72% in December, the clearest month of the season, so roughly 28% 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.