Sør-Varanger Kirkenes – Himmelstigen
Kirkenes, Finnmark, Norway
Municipal camera in Kirkenes, close to the Russian border and inside the auroral zone.
Northern lights tonight in Kirkenes
Live hourly aurora score for Kirkenes, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Finnmark, Norway, 69.73°N 30.05°EAlta guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.
E75 Svartnes
Svartnes, Vardø, Finnmark
Colour coastal camera looking towards Vardø; low horizon and an open Barents Sea sky.
E6 Tana bru
Tana bru, Finnmark
Colour view of the floodlit Tana bridge and river, with a band of dark sky above.
Road 970 Nuorgam, Teno river
Nuorgam, Utsjoki, Finland
From Finland's northernmost village across the Teno river to the Norwegian fells; B/W at night.
Road 92 Nitsijärvi
Nitsijärvi, Inari, Finland
Lake view with a thin forest line; a very dark site, mostly sky; infrared B/W at night.
Fv890 Gednje
Gednje, Varanger peninsula, Finnmark
Very dark tundra plateau; a nearby lamp can partly wash out the sky.
Fv890 Kongsfjord
Kongsfjord, Berlevåg, Finnmark
Colour camera on the treeless Varanger peninsula; dark hills, a band of sky and few lights.
FMI Auroras Now! / MIRACLE all-sky cameras
Finnish Lapland (Kevo, Kilpisjärvi and other stations) · Seasonal
Scientific camera network, winter only; images are for teaching and non-commercial research.
Aurora Holidays – live northern lights camera, Utsjoki
Utsjoki on the Teno River, Finnish Lapland
Covers much of the northern sky; aurora streaming runs late August to early April.
Northern lights in Kirkenes: what to expect
- Latitude
- 69.73° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 66.0°
- Kp needed
- Any
- Clear-night chance
- ~75%
Kirkenes lies at 69.73° N in Finnmark, Norway, about 352 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 66.0°, 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 early September to early April. Between mid-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. The hourly score above uses the live cloud forecast for this exact spot; for trip planning, the Alta guide (261 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.