Road 92 Nitsijärvi
Nitsijärvi, Inari, Finland
Lake view with a thin forest line; a very dark site, mostly sky; infrared B/W at night.
Northern lights tonight in Nellim
Live hourly aurora score for Nellim, Finland: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Lapland, Finland, 68.85°N 28.32°ESaariselkä guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.
Visit Inari – Holiday Village Inari live cam
Inari, Finnish Lapland
Live on YouTube. The owner has turned off playback on other sites, so we show the latest preview frame here and the stream plays on YouTube.
Road 4 Saariselkä, Kaunispää
Kaunispää, Saariselkä, Finland
Near the Kaunispää fell top above Saariselkä; often in fog, switches between colour and B/W.
LIVE 24/7 Saariselkä, Lapland
Saariselkä, Finnish Lapland
24/7 stream from Saariselkä, 300 km north of the Arctic Circle.
Road 92 Kaamasmukka
Kaamasmukka, Utsjoki, Finland
Wide tundra and lake view with a low horizon; about half the frame is sky; B/W at night.
Road 4 Porttipahta reservoir
Porttipahta, Sodankylä, Finland
Open view over the Porttipahta reservoir with a low, dark horizon; infrared B/W at night.
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.
Sør-Varanger Kirkenes – Himmelstigen
Kirkenes, Finnmark, Norway
Municipal camera in Kirkenes, close to the Russian border and inside the auroral zone.
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.
Northern lights in Nellim: what to expect
- Latitude
- 68.85° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 65.5°
- Kp needed
- 1+
- Clear-night chance
- ~70%
Nellim lies at 68.85° N in Lapland, Finland, about 255 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 65.5°, 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 70% 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 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 Saariselkä, 60 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 70% in March, the clearest month of the season, so roughly 30% 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.