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Northern Lights in Alta — Tonight

The tonight check for Alta, Norway: the live Kp, tonight's darkness window, and 9 public cameras within 40 km. Free, no signup.

9
cameras within 40 km of Alta
17 h 19 min
of darkness tonight
70.0° N
latitude

Alta calls itself the city of the northern lights — the world's first permanent aurora observatory was built on its mountain in 1899 — and its wall is the Altafjord road network: nine cameras within 40 km, from the Alta river bridges to the E6 along the fjord.

The cameras are road feeds, as everywhere in this set. Alta's claim on a page is position and climate: at 70°N under the oval, in a fjord pocket drier than the coast, its ordinary road cameras stand in some of Europe's best aurora weather.

LIVE GEOMAGNETIC INDEX (NOAA SWPC)

Reading the live Kp index…

Late-October outlook: NOAA's outlooks for the final week of October 2026 have flagged possible G1 (minor) storm periods, including a window around October 31. Treat that as an outlook, never a promise — geomagnetic forecasts only firm up one to three days ahead, coronal holes and CMEs permitting, and the live Kp above is the verdict on any given night.

Tonight in Alta: darkness and the Kp it needs

Alta sits under the oval like Tromsø — Kp 2–3 can already produce arcs — with a drier inland-fjord climate that historically gives it more clear nights than the outer coast.

2:47 PM
sunset today (local)
8:06 AM
sunrise tomorrow (local)
17 h 19 min
of darkness between them

Sun times are computed for Alta's coordinates (69.97, 23.27) in its local timezone — astronomy, not a forecast. The Kp panel above is the live NOAA reading; for tonight's verdict, read the two together and check the sky itself on the cameras.

Best time to watch in Alta

Alta's darkness window is Tromsø's — polar night around the solstice — with a local edge: when the coast is clouded, Alta's inland fjord often is not. On a modest-Kp night with coastal cloud, this is the Norwegian wall to try second.

All 9 Alta cameras, live

Every catalogue camera within 40 km of Alta, nearest first — the wall this page's count comes from. Pick feeds facing dark landscapes, confirm the timestamp is current, and give the sky a minute.

Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Alta.

Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.

Featured cameras around Alta

How to run the Alta aurora check

  1. 1Read the live Kp at the top of this page first, and hold it against the band this place needs (above) — below it, even perfect cameras mostly show darkness.
  2. 2Check tonight's darkness window: the display needs real dark, and the window's edges are twilight, not watching time.
  3. 3Check the weather panel and the frames themselves for cloud — no Kp sees through overcast.
  4. 4Open the darkest-facing feeds, confirm the timestamp is current, and give the sky a minute; recheck in five.
  5. 5If Alta is clouded out, switch walls — cloud is local, the oval is not. The nearest other places in this set are linked below.

Alta northern lights — FAQ

Why does Alta claim the northern lights so strongly?+
History and geometry: the first permanent aurora observatory stood here (1899), and the oval's usual position passes nearly overhead. Its fjord climate adds clear nights the outer coast doesn't get — the combination is the claim.
What Kp does Alta need tonight?+
Kp 2–3 can already produce arcs on dark, clear nights. Check the live index above, then tonight's darkness window — in the polar-night weeks, 'tonight' starts in the afternoon.
How many aurora cameras are there around Alta, and how is the count worked out?+
This page's wall holds 9 cameras: every camera in the WorldEye catalogue within 40 km of Alta, nearest first — the same rule the explorer below serves, so the number you read is the number you get. They are road, weather and scenic cameras in aurora country, not dedicated aurora feeds, and the page labels them that way.
Is the Kp on this page a forecast?+
It is the live planetary K index from NOAA SWPC — the current measured state of geomagnetic activity, read through the site's own space-weather feed, not a prediction for this place. What this page adds is the local half of the judgement: the Kp band this latitude needs, tonight's actual darkness window here, and the cameras. A display still needs all three: activity, darkness and a clear sky.
Is it free to watch?+
Yes — every camera on this page opens free on WorldEye, with no account and no signup. A free WorldEye account raises your daily camera-open limit, and the globe's Pro tools are a separate matter; the aurora walls themselves are free, full stop.

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