Shetland Webcams – Eshaness Lighthouse
Eshaness Lighthouse, Shetland, Scotland
A newer aurora-capable camera on Shetland's dark northwest coast.
Northern lights tonight in Tórshavn
Live hourly aurora score for Tórshavn, Faroe Islands: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Streymoy, Faroe Islands, 62.01°N 6.77°WIsle of Skye guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Shetland Webcams – Cliff Cam 3 (Sumburgh Head)
Sumburgh Head, Shetland, Scotland
Looks north; good aurora odds on clear winter nights, though airport lights interfere.
Northern lights in Tórshavn: what to expect
- Latitude
- 62.01° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 62.0°
- Kp needed
- 2+
- Clear-night chance
- ~41%
Tórshavn lies at 62.01° N in Streymoy, Faroe Islands, about 506 km south of the Arctic Circle. Its geomagnetic latitude of about 62.0° is just south of the usual auroral oval. Aurora is seen on many active nights, often low in the northern sky, and the oval's edge reaches this far south from about Kp 2. A dark, clear night has roughly a 41% chance of some aurora.
Nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from mid-August to early May; 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 Tórshavn. 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.