Live video from 13 cameras, and
Fintraffic's road cameras on the fells, the Arctic coast and in the cities,
each played back as its last 24 hours in twelve seconds: watch the light come
and go.
Santa Claus Village, Rovaniemi — The main square of Santa Claus Village on the Arctic Circle.
Live on YouTube from City of Rovaniemi.
Streaming when checked on .
South Harbour, Helsinki — The Market Square quay, the Suomenlinna ferry pier and the SkyWheel.
Live on YouTube from Port of Helsinki.
Streaming when checked on .
Helsinki waterfront from above — A rooftop view over the Helsinki waterfront from Eteläranta.
Live on YouTube from Elinkeinoelämän Keskusliitto EK.
Streaming when checked on .
Top of Levi fell — The view from the summit of Levi fell over the Lapland forest.
Live on YouTube from Levi Ski Resort.
Streaming when checked on .
Zero Point, Levi — The base of Levi's front slopes, with the lifts and the start of the pistes.
Live on YouTube from Levi Ski Resort.
Streaming when checked on .
Top of Ylläs fell — The camera at the top of Ylläs fell, above the slopes.
Live on YouTube from Ylläs Ski Resort.
Streaming when checked on .
Top of Pyhä fell — The northern sky from the Pyhä Dreams cabins on top of Pyhätunturi.
Live on YouTube from Pyhä Dreams.
Streaming when checked on .
Ruka slope cameras, with Pyhä — PanoCloud's views of the Ruka and Pyhä ski resorts, several angles in one stream.
Live on YouTube from PanoCloud.
Streaming when checked on .
Saariselkä ski track — The lit cross-country ski track between Saariselkä and Laanila.
Live on YouTube from Lapland North Destinations.
Streaming when checked on .
Northern sky over Utsjoki — A camera in Utsjoki pointed at the northern sky, where the aurora shows.
Live on YouTube from Aurora Holidays.
Streaming when checked on .
Sky over Posio — The sky above Posio: aurora in winter, the midnight sun in summer.
Live on YouTube from Hotel Lapin Satu.
Streaming when checked on .
All-sky aurora cameras
The cameras that point straight up. None of them is openly licensed, so all four are links — see the note at the foot of this page.
Nuorgam, the northernmost point in the EU — A Fintraffic road camera at 70.09°N on road 970, pointing along the Tana river. Not an aurora camera, but it is the northernmost live view in the country and it is dark for two months. No road weather station reading beside this one. Utsjoki, 70.09°N. Fintraffic,
a new picture every 10 minutes.
Muonio all-sky camera. One of FMI's three Lapland aurora cameras, at Muonio on the Swedish border, 68°N. Finnish Meteorological Institute
Kevo all-sky camera. The northernmost of the FMI cameras, in the Kevo nature reserve near Utsjoki. Finnish Meteorological Institute
Harbours and ferry terminals
Where the Tallinn and Stockholm boats leave from. All operator-run and none openly licensed, so these are links.
Vaasa old harbour, road 3 — Fintraffic's camera at the end of road 3, looking over the Kvarken — the narrowest part of the Gulf of Bothnia and the first place it freezes. No road weather station reading beside this one. Vaasa, 63.07°N. Fintraffic,
a new picture every 10 minutes.
Helsinki South Harbour. The Market Square quay, the Suomenlinna ferry and the Stockholm boats at the Olympia terminal. Port of Helsinki
Turku harbour. The Stockholm overnight boats and the ice in the Aura river mouth. Port of Turku
Ski slopes and the fells
Lapland's resorts run their own slope cameras under their own terms. What is openly licensed is the road that gets you there — which is also the one that tells you whether you can.
Ylläs scenic road — A camera on the Ylläs fell road itself, at 67.56°N. The best openly licensed view of a Lapland fell in the set. No road weather station reading beside this one. Kolari, 67.56°N. Fintraffic,
a new picture every 10 minutes.
Kittilä airport road — Road 79 at the airport most Levi visitors fly into. If this one is white, so is the transfer. Road surface -8.2 °C, . Kittilä, 67.70°N. Fintraffic,
a new picture every 10 minutes.
Luosto — The road into Luosto and Pyhä, through the old-growth forest on the Pyhä-Luosto fell chain. No road weather station reading beside this one. Sodankylä, 67.16°N. Fintraffic,
a new picture every 10 minutes.
Levi slope cameras. The resort's own cameras on the front slope and the gondola. Levi Ski Resort
The Arctic coast and the far north
The E8 to Kilpisjärvi and the roads beyond the Arctic Circle. The most exposed driving in Finland, and the best open cameras on it.
Kilpisjärvi — Finland's north-west corner, under the Saana fell, where Norway and Sweden meet. Five views from one mast. No road weather station reading beside this one. Enontekiö, 69.02°N. Fintraffic,
a new picture every 10 minutes.
Pokka — The coldest inhabited place in Finland — −51.5 °C in January 1999 — on the road between Kittilä and Inari. No road weather station reading beside this one. Kittilä, 68.16°N. Fintraffic,
a new picture every 10 minutes.
Kaamasmukka, road 92 — The junction where the road to Norway leaves the Arctic Highway, at 69.36°N. No road weather station reading beside this one. Utsjoki, 69.36°N. Fintraffic,
a new picture every 10 minutes.
Cities in snow
What a Finnish city actually looks like in January, rather than what a brochure says it looks like.
The Arctic Circle at Rovaniemi — Road 4 where it crosses the Arctic Circle, 8 km north of Rovaniemi. The line itself is on the Santa Claus Village side of the camera. Road surface -4.0 °C, . Rovaniemi, 66.55°N. Fintraffic,
a new picture every 10 minutes.
Santa Claus Village — The road past the village, which is the honest version of the view: a car park, a coach and a lot of snow. Road surface -3.6 °C, . Rovaniemi, 66.54°N. Fintraffic,
a new picture every 10 minutes.
Helsinki, Lauttasaari — The western approach to the city over the Lauttasaari bridge, with the sea on both sides. No road weather station reading beside this one. Helsinki, 60.16°N. Fintraffic,
a new picture every 10 minutes.
Live video from the rest of the Nordics
Sky over the Lyngen Alps — A sky camera over the Lyngen Alps in northern Norway, with the compass direction on screen.
Live on YouTube from Lyngen North.
Streaming when checked on .
Reykjavik and Mount Esja — A view across Reykjavik towards Mount Esja.
Live on YouTube from Our World Live.
Streaming when checked on .
Why some cameras are links and not pictures
Fintraffic publishes its road cameras as open data under CC BY 4.0, so we can
show the image and credit it. Ski resorts, ports, hotels and the private
aurora cams publish the pictures on their own pages under their own terms,
and most of those terms do not allow anybody else to embed them. Those get a
link. The live streams above are different: their owners put them on YouTube
with embedding switched on, and they play in YouTube's own player.
The Finnish Meteorological Institute's all-sky aurora cameras are the ones
most people come looking for. They are published on FMI's
all-sky camera page
and are not openly licensed, so they are a link on every aurora page. Every source, and what each licence allows.
