Road 4 Saariselkä, Kaunispää
Kaunispää, Saariselkä, Finland
Near the Kaunispää fell top above Saariselkä; often in fog, switches between colour and B/W.
Road 4 Saariselkä, Kaunispää
Kaunispää, Saariselkä, Finland
About this camera
Road 4 Saariselkä, Kaunispää is an open-licence still camera with a new image every 10 minutes in Kaunispää, Saariselkä, Finland, run by Fintraffic (Digitraffic).
Over many years, aurora shows on about 60% of clear, dark nights at this camera's magnetic latitude (66°). That is a long-term average, not a forecast: tonight's chance is next to the camera.
A small fell village on the edge of Urho Kekkonen National Park, famous for glass igloos. About 260 km north of Rovaniemi, with clearly better aurora odds.
Near Saariselkä the aurora season runs from September to March, when the nights are dark enough. Polar night: About a month of kaamos (polar night) around the winter solstice: roughly early December to early January without sunrise.
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