Akureyri – Rósenborg
Akureyri, North Iceland
Town camera in Akureyri, North Iceland's capital, about 50 km from Mývatn.
Iceland aurora webcams
Northern lights cameras in Iceland on one page, each with the aurora score where it stands.
All of Iceland lies under the aurora oval, so on a dark night the question is almost always the weather, not the latitude. Lows from the Atlantic bring cloud and wind, and the north around Lake Mývatn and Akureyri is often clearer than the south-west.
The aurora season runs from September to mid-April, when the nights are dark enough. The cameras below are live streams from Reykjavík, the Golden Circle, the south coast and North Iceland around Akureyri.
6 cameras in our catalogue: 4 live streams, 0 open-licence stills and 2 on operators' sites.
Cameras in Iceland
Live Aurora from Reykjavík
Reykjavík, Iceland
24/7 stream from the northern lights museum, with Kp, Bz and local time on screen.
Live Aurora stream from the Golden Circle
Golden Circle, south-west Iceland
Aurora Reykjavík's second camera, outside the city; exact location not published.
LIVE Iceland – 4K aurora real-time sky camera
Aðaldalshraun lava field, North Iceland · Seasonal
Northern-sky stream from a remote cabin between Húsavík and Akureyri, far from city lights.
Landhotel northern lights live
near Hella, South Iceland
Two live cameras at a country hotel near Hella in South Iceland.
LAVA Centre northern lights webcam
Hvolsvöllur, South Iceland
Live camera set up for the northern lights in South Iceland; watch it on the operator's page.
Where to watch in Iceland
Reykjavík
Iceland's capital and the easiest base for aurora tours, car hire and day trips. Close to the auroral oval, but ocean weather brings frequent cloud and storms.
Lake Mývatn
A lake in inland north Iceland, surrounded by volcanic craters and geothermal fields. Much darker than Reykjavík and, from midwinter on, statistically a little clearer.