E8 Skibotn
Skibotn, Troms, Norway
Road camera looking towards Finland; narrow sky, mainly useful as a weather check.
Northern lights tonight in Lyngseidet
Live hourly aurora score for Lyngseidet, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Troms, Norway, 69.58°N 20.22°ETromsø guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Skibotn BACC 5 all-sky camera
Skibotn, Troms, Norway
Second all-sky camera at the Skibotn observatory, separate from TGO's own all-sky imager.
TGO All-Sky Camera, Skibotn Observatory
Skibotn Observatory, Troms, Norway · Seasonal
Scientific all-sky camera; updates every minute when the Sun is 2° below the horizon.
Lyngen North northern lights camera
Rotsund near the Lyngen Alps, Norway · Seasonal
Live stream from a glass-igloo hotel; on-screen direction, moon brightness and solar wind data.
E8 Lavangsdalen
Lavangsdalen near Tromsø, Norway
Colour road camera with a wide strip of sky along the valley; street-light glare is possible.
Tromsø Havn – Livestream Sentrum
Tromsø city centre, Norway
Port authority view of the city centre; city lights, but strong auroras show through.
Vervet Live
Vervet, Tromsø, Norway
Long-running stream from the Vervet waterfront in Tromsø, over the strait and mountains.
UiT weather cameras – Breivika, Tromsø
Breivika, Tromsø, Norway
Four rooftop cameras (north, east, south, west) on the UiT campus in Tromsø.
Skjervøy weather camera (Yr)
Skjervøy, Troms, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera on the island of Skjervøy, north-east of Tromsø.
Northern lights in Lyngseidet: what to expect
- Latitude
- 69.58° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 67.2°
- Kp needed
- Any
- Clear-night chance
- ~75%
Lyngseidet lies at 69.58° N in Troms, Norway, about 335 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 67.2°, 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 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights. Long-term records for Tromsø, 50 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.