Live Webcams in Reykjavík

Reykjavík is the northernmost capital in the world, some 140,000 people on a bay of Faxaflói under the long wall of Mount Esja, and the live webcams in Reykjavík show a small capital with a big sky: the harbour and its whale boats, the corrugated-iron houses and the concrete spire of Hallgrímskirkja on the hill, the bay with the mountain across it, and the aurora over all of it on a clear winter night. The city keeps UTC+0 all year, with no daylight saving; in December the daylight runs from about 11:00 to 15:30 UTC and the sky is dark enough for the northern lights by late afternoon, while in June the sun barely sets. Esja, at 914 metres, is the mountain the city reads its weather by; two-thirds of Icelanders live in the region. June for the light; September to March for the aurora. Icelanders write Reykjavík.