Northern lights / Aurora borealis live – Oulu
Oulu, Finland
Two side-by-side cameras give ~208° of sky; the video id changes if the stream restarts.
Northern lights tonight in Oulu
Live hourly aurora score for Oulu, Finland: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
North Ostrobothnia, Finland, 65.01°N 25.47°ERovaniemi guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.
Northern lights livestream – Oulu (second camera)
Oulu, Finland
Second camera at the same Oulu site as the main Samimaka stream; side by side they cover about 200° of sky.
Seaside Nallikari aurora livestream – North
Nallikari seaside, Oulu, Finland
North-facing camera on the Gulf of Bothnia shore; the id changes if the stream restarts.
Seaside Nallikari aurora livestream – West
Nallikari, Oulu, Finland
West view from the Nallikari seaside in Oulu, beside the north camera; beach and sea in front.
WX Leppiojanperä weather cameras
Leppiojanperä, North Ostrobothnia, Finland
Hobby weather station with north-west and south-east cameras.
Tornio City Webcam
Tornio near Kemi, Finland
From the town hall roof, 25 km from Kemi on the Swedish border; city lights in view.
Starlapland live – Kalajoki, Adventure Park Pakka
Kalajoki, North Ostrobothnia, Finland
Bothnian Bay coast at Kalajoki, well south of Lapland; best on nights with strong activity.
Road 4 Petäjäskoski river view
Petäjäskoski, Rovaniemi, Finland
Kemijoki river south of Rovaniemi; sky in the top third; a lit birch dominates at night.
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 Oulu: what to expect
- Latitude
- 65.01° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 62.2°
- Kp needed
- 2+
- Clear-night chance
- ~42%
Oulu lies at 65.01° N in North Ostrobothnia, Finland, about 172 km south of the Arctic Circle. Its geomagnetic latitude of about 62.2° is just south of the usual auroral oval. Aurora is seen on many active nights, often low in the northern sky, and the oval's edge reaches this far south from about Kp 2. A dark, clear night has roughly a 42% chance of some aurora.
Nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from late August to late April; in the light summer nights between, the aurora cannot be seen. Around the winter solstice the sun is more than 12° below the horizon for about 15 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights. The hourly score above uses the live cloud forecast for this exact spot; for trip planning, the Rovaniemi guide (166 km away) covers the best months and clear-night odds for the wider region.
Coordinates: Wikipedia. Magnetic latitude, Kp and darkness are calculated from them; the clear-night chance is a long-term average, not a forecast.