Fv7862 Kaperskaret
Kaperskaret pass, Senja, Norway
Mountain pass at 364 m; the top half of the frame is open sky, in colour at night.
Northern lights tonight in Mefjordvær
Live hourly aurora score for Mefjordvær, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Troms, Norway, 69.52°N 17.44°ESenja guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Finnsnes weather camera (Yr)
Finnsnes, Senja, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera at Finnsnes, the mainland gateway to Senja.
Vervet Live
Vervet, Tromsø, Norway
Long-running stream from the Vervet waterfront in Tromsø, over the strait and mountains.
Tromsø Havn – Livestream Sentrum
Tromsø city centre, Norway
Port authority view of the city centre; city lights, but strong auroras show through.
Fv7702 Hestvika
Hestvika, Andøya, Vesterålen
Coastal road on Andøya with the sea and Bleik's lights under a wide sky; infrared B/W at night.
UiT weather cameras – Breivika, Tromsø
Breivika, Tromsø, Norway
Four rooftop cameras (north, east, south, west) on the UiT campus in Tromsø.
E8 Lavangsdalen
Lavangsdalen near Tromsø, Norway
Colour road camera with a wide strip of sky along the valley; street-light glare is possible.
Bardufoss weather camera (Yr)
Bardufoss, Troms, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera in the Målselv valley, inland and often clearer than the coast.
Stornes, Bergseng & Grytøya live
Stornes, Harstad, Norway
View from north of Harstad towards Grytøya island, between Lofoten and Tromsø.
Northern lights in Mefjordvær: what to expect
- Latitude
- 69.52° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 67.5°
- Kp needed
- Any
- Clear-night chance
- ~75%
Mefjordvær lies at 69.52° N in Troms, Norway, about 329 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 67.5°, 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 Senja, 25 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 74% in September, the clearest month of the season, so roughly 26% 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.