Mosjøen weather camera (Yr)
Mosjøen, Nordland, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera at Mosjøen in Helgeland, looking north-west.
Northern lights tonight in Sandnessjøen
Live hourly aurora score for Sandnessjøen, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Nordland, Norway, 66.02°N 12.62°ELofoten Islands guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Trofors weather camera (Yr)
Trofors, Nordland, Norway
North-facing air-ambulance weather camera at Trofors in the Vefsna valley.
Hattfjelldal weather camera (Yr)
Hattfjelldal, Nordland, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera at inland Hattfjelldal, near the Swedish border.
Bodø weather cameras (Yr)
Bodø, Nordland, Norway
Three air-ambulance weather cameras in Bodø (north, north-east and west views).
Fv17 Saltstraumen
Saltstraumen, Bodø, Nordland
Colour camera at the Saltstraumen bridge approach; fjord, village lights and a strip of sky.
E10 Kåkern bru
Kåkern bridge near Reine, Lofoten
View from the bridge towards the Reine peaks; the sky band is narrow but dark.
Fv835 Engeløybrua
Engeløya, Steigen, Nordland
Colour bridge camera over the fjord; on clear nights stars show above the far-shore lights.
Svinøya Rorbuer northern lights live stream
Svolvær, Lofoten, Norway
Two live cameras at the Svinøya fishermen's cabins in Svolvær, Lofoten.
Fv82 Fiskebøl ferjekai
Fiskebøl ferry quay, Lofoten, Norway
Colour quay camera with a wide sky above the mountains; stars show on clear nights.
Northern lights in Sandnessjøen: what to expect
- Latitude
- 66.02° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 64.8°
- Kp needed
- 1+
- Clear-night chance
- ~63%
Sandnessjøen lies at 66.02° N in Nordland, Norway, about 60 km south of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 64.8°, 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 63% chance of some visible aurora.
Nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from late August to mid-April. Around midsummer the sun does not set at all (mid-June to late June), and the light nights either side rule out aurora. Around the winter solstice the sun is more than 12° below the horizon for about 15.5 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights. The hourly score above uses the live cloud forecast for this exact spot; for trip planning, the Lofoten Islands guide (260 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.