E10 Bjørnfjell
Bjørnfjell on the Swedish border (near Abisko)
Bare mountain terrain at 502 m; a third of the frame is sky, a cloud check for Abisko.
Northern lights tonight in Riksgränsen
Live hourly aurora score for Riksgränsen, Sweden: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Norrbotten, Sweden, 68.43°N 18.12°EAbisko guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.
E10 Pettersenbakken
Pettersenbakken on the E10, Narvik–Abisko road
Bare mountain plateau on the E10 towards Abisko with a wide sky; infrared B/W at night.
Live Björkliden – Hotell Fjället
Björkliden near Abisko, Sweden
Hotell Fjället with Noulja and the Lapporten valley behind, just west of Abisko.
E6 Øyjord (Hålogaland bridge)
Øyjord, Narvik, Norway
Colour view of the Hålogaland bridge with Narvik and the mountains beyond; bright bridge lights.
Lights Over Lapland aurora webcams
Abisko National Park, Sweden
Northwest still view plus two live streams (Twitch); link only until permission is granted.
E6 Gratangsfjellet
Gratangsfjellet, Troms, Norway
Mountain pass with a large fell and open sky above the road; infrared B/W at night.
E10 Grovfjord vegkryss
Grovfjord, Troms, Norway
Colour junction camera with a wide view of sky and clouds above the forest.
Bardufoss weather camera (Yr)
Bardufoss, Troms, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera in the Målselv valley, inland and often clearer than the coast.
E6 Skjellesvikskaret
Skjellesvikskaret, Nordland, Norway
Mountain pass between steep slopes with a good patch of sky; infrared B/W at night.
Northern lights in Riksgränsen: what to expect
- Latitude
- 68.43° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 66.4°
- Kp needed
- Any
- Clear-night chance
- ~75%
Riksgränsen lies at 68.43° N in Norrbotten, Sweden, about 208 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 66.4°, 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 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 mid-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 Abisko, 30 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 82% in September, the clearest month of the season, so roughly 18% 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.