Hankasalmi all-sky camera (Auroras Now!)
Hankasalmi, Central Finland
All-sky camera in Central Finland from FMI's Auroras Now! service; shows aurora reaching the south of the country.
Northern lights tonight in Kuopio
Live hourly aurora score for Kuopio, Finland: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
North Savo, Finland, 62.89°N 27.68°ERovaniemi guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Nyrölä Observatory aurora camera
Nyrölä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Amateur observatory camera north of Jyväskylä, shown on the FMI space weather centre's camera page.
WX Leppiojanperä weather cameras
Leppiojanperä, North Ostrobothnia, Finland
Hobby weather station with north-west and south-east cameras.
Starlapland live – Kalajoki, Adventure Park Pakka
Kalajoki, North Ostrobothnia, Finland
Bothnian Bay coast at Kalajoki, well south of Lapland; best on nights with strong activity.
Northern lights / Aurora borealis live – Oulu
Oulu, Finland
Two side-by-side cameras give ~208° of sky; the video id changes if the stream restarts.
Northern lights livestream – Oulu (second camera)
Oulu, Finland
Second camera at the same Oulu site as the main Samimaka stream; side by side they cover about 200° of sky.
Seaside Nallikari aurora livestream – North
Nallikari seaside, Oulu, Finland
North-facing camera on the Gulf of Bothnia shore; the id changes if the stream restarts.
Seaside Nallikari aurora livestream – West
Nallikari, Oulu, Finland
West view from the Nallikari seaside in Oulu, beside the north camera; beach and sea in front.
Porin Karhunvartijat aurora cameras
Pori, Satakunta, Finland
Astronomy club cameras near Pori on the west coast: an all-sky camera plus several horizon views.
Northern lights in Kuopio: what to expect
- Latitude
- 62.89° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 59.9°
- Kp needed
- 4+
- Clear-night chance
- ~27%
Kuopio lies at 62.89° N in North Savo, Finland, about 408 km south of the Arctic Circle. At a geomagnetic latitude of about 59.9°, Kuopio needs a geomagnetic storm: the oval's edge only reaches this far south from about Kp 4, and the aurora usually stays low on the northern horizon. Roughly 27% of dark, clear nights show some aurora, far fewer than in Lapland.
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 14.5 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights, and we have no long-term cloud record near Kuopio. The hourly score above uses the live cloud forecast for this exact spot, so on a storm night it shows whether the sky is open where you are.
Coordinates: Wikipedia. Magnetic latitude, Kp and darkness are calculated from them; the clear-night chance is a long-term average, not a forecast.