Porin Karhunvartijat aurora cameras
Pori, Satakunta, Finland
Astronomy club cameras near Pori on the west coast: an all-sky camera plus several horizon views.
Northern lights tonight in Sundsvall
Live hourly aurora score for Sundsvall, Sweden: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Västernorrland, Sweden, 62.40°N 17.32°EKiruna guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Norsjö Observatory live cams
Norsjö, Västerbotten, Sweden
Private observatory and weather station in Västerbotten with live sky cameras and local aurora data.
Kevola Observatory all-sky camera
Paimio, south-west Finland
Astronomy club all-sky camera at Kevola Observatory in south-west Finland.
Live Camera Arvidsjaur
Arvidsjaur, Swedish Lapland
Continuous stream from Arvidsjaur, just south of the Arctic Circle.
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.
Hattfjelldal weather camera (Yr)
Hattfjelldal, Nordland, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera at inland Hattfjelldal, near the Swedish border.
Trofors weather camera (Yr)
Trofors, Nordland, Norway
North-facing air-ambulance weather camera at Trofors in the Vefsna valley.
Northern lights in Sundsvall: what to expect
- Latitude
- 62.40° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 59.5°
- Kp needed
- 4+
- Clear-night chance
- ~13%
Sundsvall lies at 62.40° N in Västernorrland, Sweden, about 463 km south of the Arctic Circle. At a geomagnetic latitude of about 59.5°, Sundsvall needs a geomagnetic storm: the oval's edge only reaches this far south from about Kp 4, and the aurora usually stays low on the northern horizon. Roughly 13% of dark, clear nights show some aurora, far fewer than in Lapland.
Nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from mid-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 14.5 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights, and we have no long-term cloud record near Sundsvall. The hourly score above uses the live cloud forecast for this exact spot, so on a storm night it shows whether the sky is open where you are.
Coordinates: Wikipedia. Magnetic latitude, Kp and darkness are calculated from them; the clear-night chance is a long-term average, not a forecast.