Stokmarknes weather camera (Yr)
Stokmarknes, Vesterålen, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera at Stokmarknes, between Lofoten and Vesterålen.
Northern lights tonight in Stokmarknes
Live hourly aurora score for Stokmarknes, Norway: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Nordland, Norway, 68.57°N 14.90°ELofoten Islands guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.
Fv82 Fiskebøl ferjekai
Fiskebøl ferry quay, Lofoten, Norway
Colour quay camera with a wide sky above the mountains; stars show on clear nights.
E10 Raftsundet
Raftsundet, Lofoten–Vesterålen
Mountains along Raftsundet with sky above the ridge line; infrared B/W at night.
Svinøya Rorbuer northern lights live stream
Svolvær, Lofoten, Norway
Two live cameras at the Svinøya fishermen's cabins in Svolvær, Lofoten.
Myre weather cameras (Yr)
Myre, Vesterålen, Norway
Air-ambulance weather cameras at Myre in Øksnes, Vesterålen.
Risøyhamn weather cameras (Yr)
Risøyhamn, Andøya, Norway
Air-ambulance weather cameras at Risøyhamn on Andøya, Vesterålen.
E6 Skjellesvikskaret
Skjellesvikskaret, Nordland, Norway
Mountain pass between steep slopes with a good patch of sky; infrared B/W at night.
Stornes, Bergseng & Grytøya live
Stornes, Harstad, Norway
View from north of Harstad towards Grytøya island, between Lofoten and Tromsø.
Fv835 Engeløybrua
Engeløya, Steigen, Nordland
Colour bridge camera over the fjord; on clear nights stars show above the far-shore lights.
Northern lights in Stokmarknes: what to expect
- Latitude
- 68.57° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 66.9°
- Kp needed
- Any
- Clear-night chance
- ~75%
Stokmarknes lies at 68.57° N in Nordland, Norway, about 223 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 66.9°, 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 Lofoten Islands, 39 km away, show night-time cloud cover averaging 72% in September, the clearest month of the season, so roughly 28% 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.