Visit Pyhä-Luosto Aurora Live
Luosto Fell, Finnish Lapland
Dedicated aurora camera on top of Luosto Fell; streams 24/7, best from dusk to dawn.
Northern lights tonight in Luosto
Live hourly aurora score for Luosto, Finland: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Lapland, Finland, 67.15°N 26.88°ERovaniemi guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Pyhä north slopes panorama camera
Pyhätunturi, Finland
Panorama camera over the north slopes of Pyhätunturi fell.
Starlapland Northern Light Live – Sodankylä (north view)
Sodankylä, Finnish Lapland · Seasonal
North-facing live stream; the video id changes if the stream restarts.
All-sky
SGO SKY-i all-sky camera (Sodankylä)
Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, Finland · Seasonal
Colour all-sky camera with a new frame every minute; only meaningful after dark. Credit: Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, University of Oulu.
Road 82 Joutsijärvi
Joutsijärvi, Kemijärvi, Finland
Forest edge and distant fells on the road to Salla; about half the frame is sky; B/W at night.
Road 944 Lautasalmi
Lautasalmi, Kemijärvi, Finland
Lake Kemijärvi with a small islet and a big open sky; infrared B/W at night.
Apukka Resort Live Cam
Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland
Year-round stream from a glass-igloo resort; the operator does not allow commercial use.
Live @ Santa Claus Village
Santa Claus Village, Rovaniemi, Finland
Stream from the village on the Arctic Circle; the square is lit, so only bright auroras show.
Aurora Alert Realtime live camera
Rovaniemi, Finland
Live sky camera near Rovaniemi run by the team behind the Aurora Alert Realtime app.
Northern lights in Luosto: what to expect
- Latitude
- 67.15° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 64.1°
- Kp needed
- 1+
- Clear-night chance
- ~56%
Luosto lies at 67.15° N in Lapland, Finland, about 66 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 64.1°, 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 56% chance of some visible aurora.
Nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from late August to mid-April. Around midsummer the sun does not set at all (early June to mid-July), and the light nights either side rule out aurora. Around the winter solstice the sun is more than 12° below the horizon for about 15.5 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights. Long-term records for Rovaniemi, 88 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 68% in March, the clearest month of the season, so roughly 32% 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.