E10 Kåkern bru
Kåkern bridge near Reine, Lofoten
View from the bridge towards the Reine peaks; the sky band is narrow but dark.
Northern lights tonight in Leknes
Live hourly aurora score for Leknes, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Nordland, Norway, 68.15°N 13.61°ELofoten Islands guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Svinøya Rorbuer northern lights live stream
Svolvær, Lofoten, Norway
Two live cameras at the Svinøya fishermen's cabins in Svolvær, Lofoten.
Fv82 Fiskebøl ferjekai
Fiskebøl ferry quay, Lofoten, Norway
Colour quay camera with a wide sky above the mountains; stars show on clear nights.
Stokmarknes weather camera (Yr)
Stokmarknes, Vesterålen, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera at Stokmarknes, between Lofoten and Vesterålen.
Fv835 Engeløybrua
Engeløya, Steigen, Nordland
Colour bridge camera over the fjord; on clear nights stars show above the far-shore lights.
E10 Raftsundet
Raftsundet, Lofoten–Vesterålen
Mountains along Raftsundet with sky above the ridge line; infrared B/W at night.
Bodø weather cameras (Yr)
Bodø, Nordland, Norway
Three air-ambulance weather cameras in Bodø (north, north-east and west views).
Fv17 Saltstraumen
Saltstraumen, Bodø, Nordland
Colour camera at the Saltstraumen bridge approach; fjord, village lights and a strip of sky.
Myre weather cameras (Yr)
Myre, Vesterålen, Norway
Air-ambulance weather cameras at Myre in Øksnes, Vesterålen.
Northern lights in Leknes: what to expect
- Latitude
- 68.15° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 66.7°
- Kp needed
- Any
- Clear-night chance
- ~75%
Leknes lies at 68.15° N in Nordland, Norway, about 177 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 66.7°, 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 early December to early January, and nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from late August to mid-April. Between late May and mid-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. Long-term records for Lofoten Islands, 40 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 72% in September, 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.