Is there a live webcam in Saariselkä?

Yes. A live video stream from Lapland North Destinations, shown on this page in YouTube's player because the owner allows it, and 4 Fintraffic road cameras within 37 km, each a new picture every 10 minutes at most and played back as its last 24 hours.

Saariselkä webcams

A live video stream from Lapland North Destinations, 4 Fintraffic road cameras on the roads into Saariselkä, and the things a camera cannot tell you: whether tonight is worth going out for the northern lights, and whether the road is icy.

Live video from Saariselkä

Press play to start a stream. Each one plays in YouTube's own player because its owner switched embedding 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 23 October 2026.

Aurora tonight in Saariselkä and Ivalo

Worth going out after 20:14 if the cloud breaks — a 24% chance of aurora overhead. The cloud thins to 36% around 21:00. A waxing gibbous (92% lit) is up, so faint arcs will be washed out.

Checked 23 Oct, 20:45 EEST against NOAA SWPC and FMI.

Tonight's evidence for Saariselkä and Ivalo: activity, cloud, darkness and the moon.

Road cameras on the way in

Fintraffic's cameras, each played back as its last 24 hours in twelve seconds. The road surface temperature is shown where a road weather station stands beside the camera.

Fintraffic road camera: Kaunispää, the first landscape view — **Kaunispää, the first landscape view**, 4 km from Saariselkä. Road surface +0.8 °C, 3 minutes ago. Fintraffic, a new picture every 10 minutes.

Fintraffic road camera: Kaunispää, the second landscape view — **Kaunispää, the second landscape view**, 4 km from Saariselkä. Road surface +0.8 °C, 3 minutes ago. Fintraffic, a new picture every 10 minutes.

Fintraffic road camera: Road 4 at Kaunispää, towards Rovaniemi — **Road 4 at Kaunispää, towards Rovaniemi**, 4 km from Saariselkä. Road surface +0.8 °C, 3 minutes ago. Fintraffic, a new picture every 10 minutes.

Fintraffic road camera: Road 4 at Vuotso, Sodankylä — **Road 4 at Vuotso, Sodankylä**, 37 km from Saariselkä. No road weather station reading beside this one. Fintraffic, a new picture every 10 minutes.

Rovaniemi to Saariselkä and Inari: Poor driving conditions on Rovaniemi to Saariselkä and Inari — the surface runs -0.8 to +4.0 °C. A closure is due on Valtatie 4 from 26 October — bridge work, width limit 4 m, road closed, signed detour. The surface is at or below freezing at 3 of 13 stations, from Sodankylä Petäjämaa K northwards. Checked 23 Oct, 20:45 EEST.

More cameras in Saariselkä

These publish their pictures under their own terms, which do not let anybody else show them, so they are a link.

Kaunispää and Lake Inari. The destination's own page, with the panorama from Kaunispää fell and a camera on Lake Inari. Lapland North Destinations
Finland's all-sky aurora cameras. The Finnish Meteorological Institute's cameras that point straight up. Auroras Now!

Daylight today

On 23 October 2026 the sun rises at 08:50 and sets at 17:01 in Saariselkä: 8 hours 10 minutes of daylight, so the cameras show Saariselkä in daylight only around those times. Daylight in Saariselkä through the year.

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Camera list checked 23 October 2026. Data source: Fintraffic / digitraffic.fi, licence CC BY 4.0