Northern lights tonight in Setermoen

Live hourly aurora score for Setermoen, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.

Troms, Norway, 68.86°N 18.35°ESenja guide

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Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.

Northern lights in Setermoen: what to expect

Latitude
68.86° N
Magnetic latitude
66.8°
Kp needed
Any
Clear-night chance
~75%

Setermoen lies at 68.86° N in Troms, Norway, about 256 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 66.8°, 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 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 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, 64 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.