Fv888 Mehamnelv bru
Mehamn, Nordkinn peninsula, Finnmark
Dark, treeless Nordkinn plateau with a low horizon and plenty of sky; infrared B/W at night.
Northern lights tonight in Kjøllefjord
Live hourly aurora score for Kjøllefjord, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Finnmark, Norway, 70.95°N 27.35°EAlta guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Mehamn weather cameras (Yr)
Mehamn, Finnmark, Norway
Air-ambulance weather cameras at Mehamn, facing west and north-west over the Barents coast.
Mehamn.net Webkamera
Mehamn, Gamvik, Finnmark, Norway
Stream from Mehamn near mainland Europe's northern tip, right under the auroral oval.
E69 Kamøyværkrysset
Kamøyvær, Nordkapp, Finnmark
Colour camera on the road to Nordkapp; open sky is visible above the hills.
Skarsvåg Live
Skarsvåg, North Cape, Norway
24/7 stream from a tiny fishing village near the North Cape; little light pollution.
Nordkapp Day & Night 360° webcam
North Cape, Finnmark, Norway
Panorama camera on the North Cape plateau in Finnmark.
E69 Vedbotn
Vedbotn, Porsanger, Finnmark
Sparsely lit fjord shore with a wide, dark sky above the mountain.
Fv890 Kongsfjord
Kongsfjord, Berlevåg, Finnmark
Colour camera on the treeless Varanger peninsula; dark hills, a band of sky and few lights.
Fv890 Gednje
Gednje, Varanger peninsula, Finnmark
Very dark tundra plateau; a nearby lamp can partly wash out the sky.
Northern lights in Kjøllefjord: what to expect
- Latitude
- 70.95° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 67.5°
- Kp needed
- Any
- Clear-night chance
- ~75%
Kjøllefjord lies at 70.95° N in Finnmark, Norway, about 488 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 67.5°, 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 75% chance of some visible aurora.
Darkness is never the problem in winter: the sun stays below the horizon from mid-November to late 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 16.5 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 (186 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.