Aurora locations / Sodankylä

Aurora tonight in Sodankylä

Finnish Lapland, Finland · 67.42°N, 26.60°E

Open the full Sodankylä forecast →

Live hour-by-hour darkness, cloud, Kp and Bz — free, no account.

Why Sodankylä

Site of a long-running geophysical observatory — a place chosen by scientists to watch the magnetosphere.

How much activity you need here

At 67.4° geographic latitude, Sodankylä sits under the auroral oval: aurora is possible on any clear, dark night, even at Kp 0–1.

Best time to go

The northern aurora season runs from late August to mid-April, when nights are long enough to be truly dark. Around midwinter the sky can stay dark almost all day; in high summer the midnight sun makes viewing impossible.

Watch the live forecast

OvalWatch tracks NOAA space-weather, Open-Meteo cloud cover and USNO darkness for Sodankylä and turns them into one honest verdict, updated every few minutes. Open Sodankylä in OvalWatch →