E6 Aisaroaivi
Aisaroaivi, Sennalandet plateau (near Alta)
Open plateau with a wide horizon; shoots infrared black-and-white at night, so no aurora colour.
Northern lights tonight in Lakselv
Live hourly aurora score for Lakselv, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Finnmark, Norway, 70.05°N 24.97°EAlta guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.
E6 Levddon
Levddon on the Alta–Skaidi road, Finnmark
Wide sky at 384 m; infrared black-and-white at night, so use it for cloud cover only.
Road 970 Nuvvus
Nuvvus, Utsjoki, Finland
Teno valley with fells on both sides and sky between them; infrared B/W at night.
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.
Aurora Borealis (LIVE!) – Utsjoki
Utsjoki, Finland · Seasonal
Long-running Utsjoki channel that goes live on aurora nights in the dark season; there is no permanent stream to embed.
Hammerfest Havn Live
Hammerfest, Finnmark, Norway
Harbour of Hammerfest, one of the world's northernmost towns; harbour lights in view.
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.
E69 Vedbotn
Vedbotn, Porsanger, Finnmark
Sparsely lit fjord shore with a wide, dark sky above the mountain.
Northern lights in Lakselv: what to expect
- Latitude
- 70.05° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 67.0°
- Kp needed
- Any
- Clear-night chance
- ~75%
Lakselv lies at 70.05° N in Finnmark, Norway, about 388 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 67.0°, 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 16.5 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights. Long-term records for Alta, 65 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.