Kp 3.7Highest Kp of the coming night

Northern lights tonight

Where the northern and southern lights can be seen tonight: the highest Kp forecast for the coming night is 3.7, and 1274 places have a chance. They are ranked by how far the forecast clears the Kp each one needs, with tonight's clouds and the Moon.

Kp 3.7Highest Kp of the coming night · active

1,274Places with a chance

Kp 3.7Kp now · 22 Oct, 13:39 UTC

86%The Moon tonight · lit

Tonight's best places

Watson LakeCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 2%

SnezhnogorskRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 6%

Fort LiardCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 8%

IgarkaRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 10%

Lazy MountainUnited StatesPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 11%

KhonuuRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 12%

TalkeetnaUnited StatesPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 14%

AklavikCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 17%

VuktylRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0.1Mostly clear · 21%

BugrinoRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 34%

GillamCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 0%

ThompsonCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 0%

SalekhardRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 41%

Naryan-MarRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 44%

MuravlenkoRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0.2Partly cloudy · 37%

KalevalaRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 5%

BeloyarskiyRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0.2Partly cloudy · 38%

HebronCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 6%

NainCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 6%

LeshukonskoyeRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 7%

TeryutRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 1Mostly clear · 9%

Fort NelsonCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 8%

PinegaRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 9%

PechoraRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 50%

ÞórshöfnIcelandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 11%

LedmozeroRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 12%

Novoye ChaplinoRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 53%

NyaganRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 1Mostly clear · 16%

BlönduósIcelandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 16%

InchounRussiaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 58%

KuhmoFinlandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 22%

FlúðirIcelandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 27%

NorðurþingIcelandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Mostly clear · 28%

ReykjavíkIcelandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 30%

New HazeltonCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 1Partly cloudy · 36%

La RongeCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 36%

SauðárkrókurIcelandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 37%

ÞorlákshöfnIcelandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 39%

ÓlafsvíkIcelandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 39%

CarmacksCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Cloudy · 81%

OulunsaloFinlandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 41%

KugluktukCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 42%

PangnirtungCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 44%

KalajokiFinlandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 46%

NeskaupstaðurIcelandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 48%

SotkamoFinlandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 49%

Meadow LakeCanadaPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 49%

KemiFinlandPossible overhead

Kp needed: Kp 0Partly cloudy · 57%

Tonight, country by country

RussiaPlaces with a chance: 436

Ust-Tsilma

CanadaPlaces with a chance: 315

Aklavik

United StatesPlaces with a chance: 202

Haines

NorwayPlaces with a chance: 94

Kiberg

SwedenPlaces with a chance: 79

Vuollerim

FinlandPlaces with a chance: 62

Ylivieska

IcelandPlaces with a chance: 24

Vík í Mýrdal

United KingdomPlaces with a chance: 19

Lerwick

EstoniaPlaces with a chance: 14

Loksa

New ZealandPlaces with a chance: 11

Invercargill

AustraliaPlaces with a chance: 9

Geeveston

LatviaPlaces with a chance: 4

Mērsrags

KazakhstanPlaces with a chance: 3

Mamlyutka

DenmarkPlaces with a chance: 2

Frederikshavn

Kp forecast for the next three days

The oval right now

Probability of aurora overhead in the next half hour; it is seen low on the horizon up to about 500 km further from the pole. The marked dots show where.

Northern lights

Southern lights

The Moon tonight

86%lit

Around midnightThe lights are usually strongest within an hour or two of local midnight, though a strong storm can start at dusk.

A dark MoonNear new moon even a faint aurora shows; under a full moon you need a brighter display.

Clear and away from lightsClouds stop everything. Head away from street lights and look towards the pole.