Live Webcams in Rovaniemi, Lapland

Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, is the town the Arctic Circle passes through, and the live webcams in Rovaniemi watch the square where that line is painted on the ground: the Christmas village just north of town, where visitors from every continent step over the Circle, Santa keeps office hours all year and the snow lies from November to April. Watching it live is watching winter arrive in the place most people picture when they think of it. Rovaniemi keeps Eastern European Time, UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer; in December the daylight lasts a couple of hours around 10:00 UTC, and the square glows under its lights for the rest of the day. The Circle sits at 66 degrees 33 minutes north, and the village draws some half a million visitors a year. December for Christmas; September to March for the aurora; June and July for the midnight sun.