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 Vaasa
Live hourly aurora score for Vaasa, Finland: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Ostrobothnia, Finland, 63.10°N 21.62°ERovaniemi guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.
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.
Nyrölä Observatory aurora camera
Nyrölä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Amateur observatory camera north of Jyväskylä, shown on the FMI space weather centre's camera page.
Norsjö Observatory live cams
Norsjö, Västerbotten, Sweden
Private observatory and weather station in Västerbotten with live sky cameras and local aurora data.
WX Leppiojanperä weather cameras
Leppiojanperä, North Ostrobothnia, Finland
Hobby weather station with north-west and south-east cameras.
Hankasalmi all-sky camera (Auroras Now!)
Hankasalmi, Central Finland
All-sky camera in Central Finland from FMI's Auroras Now! service; shows aurora reaching the south of the country.
Seaside Nallikari aurora livestream – North
Nallikari seaside, Oulu, Finland
North-facing camera on the Gulf of Bothnia shore; the id changes if the stream restarts.
Seaside Nallikari aurora livestream – West
Nallikari, Oulu, Finland
West view from the Nallikari seaside in Oulu, beside the north camera; beach and sea in front.
Northern lights / Aurora borealis live – Oulu
Oulu, Finland
Two side-by-side cameras give ~208° of sky; the video id changes if the stream restarts.
Northern lights in Vaasa: what to expect
- Latitude
- 63.10° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 61.0°
- Kp needed
- 3+
- Clear-night chance
- ~34%
Vaasa lies at 63.10° N in Ostrobothnia, Finland, about 385 km south of the Arctic Circle. Its geomagnetic latitude of about 61.0° 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 3. A dark, clear night has roughly a 34% chance of some aurora.
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 15 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights, and we have no long-term cloud record near Vaasa. 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.