AURORA FORECAST

Aurora forecast: will you see the northern lights?

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NOAA aurora forecast map

Geomagnetic activity is expected to stay quiet over the next three days (Kp up to 3.0). Auroras are most likely only near the Arctic Circle: Alaska, northern Canada, Iceland and the far north of Scandinavia.

Kp now (30 min avg)0.7 · quiet
3-day peakKp 3.0
Storm levelquiet
Updated (UTC)Oct 26 18:20

Next three days

How to see them

Look north (south in the Southern Hemisphere) from a dark place, from late evening to the early morning hours. Phone cameras often pick up auroras the eye can barely see. The K index (0 to 9) measures how disturbed Earth’s magnetic field is: at 5 and above, a geomagnetic storm pushes auroras much farther from the poles.

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Official forecasts: NOAA aurora dashboard.

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