Finland, from the people who live here
Whether the lights are out tonight, what the road north is doing, and how much daylight is left — each answered from the official feeds, with the time of every reading. Then the guides, written by people who live in Finland rather than people who visited once.
Tonight's light
Local noon to local noon. Night is the dark band, the pale line is sunset or sunrise, and the green rule marks the hours dark enough to see the aurora. Computed for 2026-09-26.
- astronomical dark
- nautical twilight
- civil twilight
- daylight
- aurora window
Can you see the lights tonight?
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Utsjoki
Clouded out — 100% cloud at best between 22:48 and 03:22.
100% cloud at best · 4h 34m dark
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Kilpisjärvi
Worth going out after 23:00 if the cloud breaks — a 10% chance of aurora overhead. The cloud thins to 67% around 03:00. A full moon (100% lit) is up, so faint arcs will be washed out.
67% cloud at best · 5h 00m dark
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Saariselkä and Inari
Clouded out — 100% cloud at best between 22:26 and 03:40.
100% cloud at best · 5h 14m dark
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Levi
Clouded out — 100% cloud at best between 22:30 and 03:58.
100% cloud at best · 5h 28m dark
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Rovaniemi
Clouded out — 100% cloud at best between 22:12 and 04:08.
100% cloud at best · 5h 56m dark
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Helsinki
Unlikely tonight — dark from 21:34 and the sky is clear, but the field is quiet (Kp 3.67).
4% cloud at best · 7h 18m dark
The roads north
Fintraffic cameras in the order you drive past them, with the road surface temperature beside each one. Updated every few minutes.
- Oulu to Rovaniemi
- Normal driving conditions on Oulu to Rovaniemi — the surface runs +9.4 to +10.8 °C.33 of 33 cameras live · 225 km · E75 · read
- Rovaniemi to Levi and Kittilä
- Normal driving conditions forecast on Rovaniemi to Levi and Kittilä — the surface runs +8.7 to +9.0 °C.4 of 4 cameras live · 150 km · read
- Rovaniemi to Saariselkä and Inari
- Normal driving conditions on Rovaniemi to Saariselkä and Inari — the surface runs +7.5 to +9.4 °C.14 of 14 cameras live · 330 km · E75 · read
- Tornio to Kilpisjärvi
- Normal driving conditions on Tornio to Kilpisjärvi — the surface runs +5.5 to +9.3 °C.16 of 16 cameras live · 460 km · E8 · read
Guides
Adapted from vse.fi, a Russian-language guide to Finland that has been written from inside the country since 2009. Every fact that can go out of date carries the day we last checked it against the official source.
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Rovaniemi in winter
What it actually costs, how dark it gets, and which of the Santa attractions is worth the taxi fare.
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Can you see the aurora in Helsinki?
Sometimes. Here is the honest answer, and the two places in the city worth standing in when it happens.
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Winter tyre rules in Finland
The rule changed in 2020 and most English-language pages still have the old one. Checked against Traficom.