Live Webcams in Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska's second city at 64 degrees north, lies directly under the auroral oval, and the live webcams in Fairbanks look at the thing the town is known for: the northern sky above the trees, waiting for the aurora, with the stars, the moon and the occasional passing snowfall to watch in the meantime. Fairbanks keeps Alaska Time, UTC−9 and UTC−8 in summer, so the best aurora hours, around midnight local, fall in a European morning and an East Coast dawn. The reason to watch here is the odds: in season the lights show on roughly two nights in three. Late August to April is that season; from May the sky never gets dark enough, and at the June solstice the sun is up for nearly 22 hours.