You’re watching Levi Ski Resort in Lapland, Finland through a live webcam, right in the middle of one of the largest ski areas in the country. Levi sits in the village of Sirkka, in the municipality of Kittilä, about 170 km north of the Arctic Circle and roughly 15–17 km from Kittilä town and its airport.
The fell itself rises to about 531 m above sea level, with a vertical drop of roughly 325 m between the base and the highest lifts. That might sound modest compared to the Alps, but in Finnish terms it’s serious terrain: you get around 43–44 marked slopes and more than 38–45 km of pistes, depending on how the routes are counted.
Levi’s lift system includes gondolas, chairlifts, T-bars, button lifts and carpets, adding up to around 25–27 lifts serving every side of the fell. There are blue runs for beginners, red runs for intermediates and a few black slopes like Levi Black for more confident skiers. If you look closely at the live stream, you may notice how the easier pistes run straight down toward the village, while steeper faces sit slightly off to the side.
One neat detail: a lot of slopes are floodlit, and the resort runs a long season, typically from October into April or early May, helped by snowmaking and the cold Lapland climate. So this web camera can show pure polar night with artificial light on the snow, soft blue twilight, or bright spring sunshine on the same runs, depending on the time of year. On clear winter nights, there is also a fair chance that the sky above the hill glows with northern lights.
Levi is not only about alpine skiing. Around the resort there are about 230 km of cross-country tracks, with tens of kilometers lit in the evening, plus marked snowmobile trails running hundreds of kilometers through the forests. So when the camera shows people gliding past on flatter terrain, they might be cross-country skiers heading along one of those prepared loops.
