Northern lights forecast
Aurora forecast: will you see the northern lights tonight?
Updated
Max Kp 3 in the next 24 h (quiet): aurora visible down to about 57° geomagnetic latitude Within reach tonight (clouds permitting): Stockholm, Calgary, Oslo, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Helsinki.
Live Kp index, the NOAA 3-day forecast, and a city-by-city answer for tonight that also checks cloud cover and darkness.
- Kp now
- 2 quiet, estimated 2026-10-25 18:00 UTC
- Max Kp next 24 h
- 3 quiet
- OVATION peak probability (north)
- 20%
- Cities in range tonight
- 101 of 2,084 listed
3-day Kp forecast
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issues the Kp forecast in 3-hour blocks. Sun, 25 Oct: max Kp 2 (quiet); Mon, 26 Oct: max Kp 3 (quiet); Tue, 27 Oct: max Kp 1.7 (quiet).
| Day (UTC) | Max Kp | Level | Visible down to (geomagnetic) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-25 | 2 | quiet | 59° |
| 2026-10-26 | 3 | quiet | 57° |
| 2026-10-27 | 1.7 | quiet | 60° |
Which Kp do you need?
The aurora oval centres on the geomagnetic pole in the Canadian Arctic. The further you are from it, the stronger the storm (higher Kp) needed to bring the aurora into view. Approximate Kp for aurora on the horizon:
| City | Geomagnetic latitude | Kp needed |
|---|---|---|
| Fairbanks | 65.7° | 0 |
| Yellowknife | 68.5° | 0 |
| Tromsø | 67.5° | 0 |
| Reykjavík | 68.8° | 0 |
| Edmonton | 60.0° | 2 |
| Oslo | 59.7° | 2 |
| Calgary | 57.5° | 3 |
| Winnipeg | 58.1° | 3 |
| Stockholm | 58.0° | 3 |
| Edinburgh | 58.1° | 3 |
| Seattle | 53.0° | 6 |
| Toronto | 52.8° | 6 |
| London | 53.3° | 5 |
| Berlin | 52.2° | 6 |
| Chicago | 50.7° | 7 |
| New York City | 49.9° | 7 |
| Paris | 50.4° | 7 |
| Denver | 47.3° | 8 |
| Hobart | -49.6° | 7 |
| Dunedin | -49.3° | 7 |
Cities where the aurora is within reach tonight
- Northern lights tonight in Stockholm needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Calgary needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Oslo needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Edmonton needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Winnipeg needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Helsinki needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Glasgow needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Gothenburg needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Edinburgh needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Arkhangel’sk needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Espoo needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Murmansk needs Kp 0
- Northern lights tonight in Bergen needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Anchorage needs Kp 1
- Northern lights tonight in Petrozavodsk needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Saskatoon needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Tampere needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Vantaa needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Regina needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Trondheim needs Kp 1
- Northern lights tonight in Oulu needs Kp 1
- Northern lights tonight in Turku needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Aberdeen needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Severodvinsk needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Uppsala needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Linköping needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Örebro needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Stavanger needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Saguenay needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Jyväskylä needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Dundee needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Norilsk needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Sollentuna needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Umeå needs Kp 1
- Northern lights tonight in Västerås needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Kuopio needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Lahti needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Reykjavík needs Kp 0
- Northern lights tonight in Kristiansand needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Drammen needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Red Deer needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Airdrie needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Derry needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Prince George needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Joensuu needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Paisley needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in East Kilbride needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Sherwood Park needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Grande Prairie needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Fort McMurray needs Kp 1
- Northern lights tonight in Rovaniemi needs Kp 0
- Northern lights tonight in St. Albert needs Kp 2
- Northern lights tonight in Livingston needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Dunfermline needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Meikle Earnock needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Hamilton, Scotland needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Cumbernauld needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Kirkcaldy needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Moss needs Kp 3
- Northern lights tonight in Brandon, MB needs Kp 3
Aurora forecast: United States
- New York City Kp 7
- Brooklyn Kp 7
- Chicago Kp 7
- Queens Kp 7
- Philadelphia Kp 8
- Manhattan Kp 7
- The Bronx Kp 7
- Columbus Kp 8
- Indianapolis Kp 8
- Seattle Kp 6
- Denver Kp 8
- Washington Kp 8
- Nashville Kp 9
- Boston Kp 6
- Portland Kp 7
- Detroit Kp 6
- Louisville Kp 8
- Baltimore Kp 8
- Milwaukee Kp 6
- Omaha Kp 7
- Kansas City Kp 8
- Staten Island Kp 7
- Colorado Springs Kp 9
- Virginia Beach Kp 9
- Minneapolis Kp 5
- Wichita Kp 9
- Cleveland Kp 7
- Aurora Kp 8
- Lexington Kp 9
- Lexington-Fayette Kp 9
- Cincinnati Kp 8
- Pittsburgh Kp 7
- Saint Paul Kp 5
- Lincoln Kp 8
- Anchorage Kp 1
- Meads Kp 8
- Greensboro Kp 9
- Newark Kp 7
- Madison Kp 6
- St. Louis Kp 8
- Toledo Kp 7
- Jersey City Kp 7
- Reno Kp 9
- Fort Wayne Kp 7
- Buffalo Kp 6
- Durham Kp 9
- Winston-Salem Kp 9
- Norfolk Kp 9
- Boise Kp 7
- Chesapeake Kp 9
- Spokane Kp 5
- Richmond Kp 9
- Tacoma Kp 6
- Salt Lake City Kp 8
- Des Moines Kp 7
- Rochester Kp 6
- Arlington, VA Kp 8
- Worcester Kp 6
- Yonkers Kp 7
- Aurora, IL Kp 7
Aurora forecast: United Kingdom
- London Kp 5
- Birmingham Kp 5
- Glasgow Kp 3
- Manchester Kp 4
- Sheffield Kp 4
- Leeds Kp 4
- Edinburgh Kp 3
- Liverpool Kp 4
- Bristol Kp 5
- Cardiff Kp 5
- Leicester Kp 5
- Bradford Kp 4
- Belfast Kp 4
- Coventry Kp 5
- Birkenhead Kp 4
- Nottingham Kp 5
- Islington Kp 5
- Reading Kp 5
- Kingston upon Hull Kp 4
- Preston Kp 4
- Swansea Kp 5
- Newcastle upon Tyne Kp 4
- Southend-on-Sea Kp 6
- Brighton Kp 6
- Derby Kp 5
- Southampton Kp 6
- Wolverhampton Kp 5
- Plymouth Kp 6
- Stoke-on-Trent Kp 5
- Milton Keynes Kp 5
- City of Westminster Kp 5
- Northampton Kp 5
- Oldham Kp 4
- Luton Kp 5
- Barking Kp 5
- Portsmouth Kp 6
- Swindon Kp 5
- Dudley Kp 5
- Aberdeen Kp 3
- Sutton Kp 6
- St Helens Kp 4
- Ipswich Kp 5
- Wigan Kp 4
- Croydon Kp 6
- Warrington Kp 4
- Walsall Kp 5
- Mansfield Kp 5
- Sunderland Kp 4
- Ilford Kp 5
- Slough Kp 5
- Bournemouth Kp 6
- Peterborough Kp 5
- Oxford Kp 5
- Newport Kp 5
- Enfield Town Kp 5
- York Kp 4
- Telford Kp 5
- Poole Kp 6
- Burnley Kp 4
- Harrow Kp 5
Aurora forecast: Canada
- Toronto Kp 6
- Montréal Kp 5
- Calgary Kp 3
- Ottawa Kp 5
- Edmonton Kp 2
- Winnipeg Kp 3
- Mississauga Kp 6
- Vancouver Kp 5
- Brampton Kp 6
- Hamilton Kp 6
- Surrey Kp 5
- Québec Kp 4
- Halifax Kp 5
- Laval Kp 5
- London, ON Kp 6
- Etobicoke Kp 6
- Markham Kp 6
- Vaughan Kp 6
- Gatineau Kp 5
- Victoria, BC Kp 5
- Saskatoon Kp 2
- Kitchener Kp 6
- Burnaby Kp 5
- Windsor Kp 6
- Longueuil Kp 5
- Regina Kp 3
- Oakville Kp 6
- Richmond, BC Kp 5
- Richmond Hill Kp 6
- Burlington Kp 6
- Nepean Kp 5
- Oshawa Kp 6
- Greater Sudbury Kp 4
- Gloucester Kp 5
- Saguenay Kp 3
- Coquitlam Kp 5
- Barrie Kp 5
- Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie Kp 5
- Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension Kp 5
- Kelowna Kp 4
- Trois-Rivières Kp 4
- Guelph Kp 6
- Lévis Kp 4
- Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Kp 5
- Abbotsford Kp 5
- Whitby Kp 6
- St. Catharines Kp 6
- Milton Kp 6
- Langley Kp 5
- Kingston, ON Kp 5
- Cambridge, ON Kp 6
- Sherbrooke Kp 5
- Orléans Kp 5
- Ottawa South Kp 5
- Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne Kp 5
- Ajax Kp 6
- Saanich Kp 5
- Thornhill Kp 6
- Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles Kp 5
- Terrebonne Kp 5
Aurora forecast: Russia
- Moscow Kp 6
- Saint Petersburg Kp 4
- Novosibirsk Kp 9
- Yekaterinburg Kp 7
- Nizhniy Novgorod Kp 6
- Kazan Kp 7
- Chelyabinsk Kp 8
- Omsk Kp 9
- Samara Kp 8
- Ufa Kp 8
- Krasnoyarsk Kp 9
- Voronezh Kp 8
- Perm Kp 6
- Saratov Kp 9
- Tyumen Kp 7
- Tolyatti Kp 8
- Izhevsk Kp 7
- Ulyanovsk Kp 8
- Yaroslavl Kp 6
- Tomsk Kp 8
- Orenburg Kp 9
- Kemerovo Kp 9
- Novokuznetsk Kp 9+
- Ryazan’ Kp 7
- Penza Kp 8
- Naberezhnyye Chelny Kp 7
- Lipetsk Kp 8
- Kirov Kp 6
- Cheboksary Kp 7
- Tula Kp 7
- Kaliningrad Kp 6
- Kursk Kp 8
- Bryansk Kp 7
- Tver Kp 6
- Magnitogorsk Kp 9
- Ivanovo Kp 6
- Nizhny Tagil Kp 7
- Vladimir Kp 6
- Arkhangel’sk Kp 2
- Belgorod Kp 9
- Kaluga Kp 7
- Smolensk Kp 6
- Saransk Kp 7
- Cherepovets Kp 5
- Vologda Kp 5
- Kurgan Kp 8
- Orël Kp 7
- Surgut Kp 5
- Murmansk Kp 0
- Tambov Kp 8
- Petrozavodsk Kp 3
- Kostroma Kp 6
- Yoshkar-Ola Kp 6
- Sterlitamak Kp 8
- Bratsk Kp 9
- Syktyvkar Kp 4
- Nizhnevartovsk Kp 6
- Khimki Kp 6
- Yakutsk Kp 5
- Nizhnekamsk Kp 7
Aurora forecast: Germany
- Berlin Kp 6
- Hamburg Kp 5
- Munich Kp 8
- Köln Kp 6
- Frankfurt am Main Kp 7
- Düsseldorf Kp 6
- Stuttgart Kp 7
- Essen Kp 6
- Dortmund Kp 6
- Dresden Kp 7
- Bremen Kp 5
- Nuremberg Kp 7
- Hannover Kp 6
- Leipzig Kp 7
- Duisburg Kp 6
- Bochum Kp 6
- Wuppertal Kp 6
- Bielefeld Kp 6
- Bonn Kp 6
- Münster Kp 6
- Mannheim Kp 7
- Augsburg Kp 8
- Wiesbaden Kp 7
- Karlsruhe Kp 7
- Gelsenkirchen Kp 6
- Aachen Kp 6
- Mönchengladbach Kp 6
- Kiel Kp 5
- Chemnitz Kp 7
- Braunschweig Kp 6
- Magdeburg Kp 6
- Krefeld Kp 6
- Halle (Saale) Kp 6
- Freiburg Kp 8
- Mainz Kp 7
- Oberhausen Kp 6
- Erfurt Kp 7
- Lübeck Kp 5
- Hagen Kp 6
- Rostock Kp 5
- Kassel Kp 6
- Potsdam Kp 6
- Saarbrücken Kp 7
- Hamm Kp 6
- Mülheim Kp 6
- Herne Kp 6
- Darmstadt Kp 7
- Osnabrück Kp 6
- Solingen Kp 6
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein Kp 7
- Leverkusen Kp 6
- Oldenburg Kp 5
- Neuss Kp 6
- Regensburg Kp 8
- Heidelberg Kp 7
- Paderborn Kp 6
- Würzburg Kp 7
- Fürth Kp 7
- Wolfsburg Kp 6
- Recklinghausen Kp 6
Aurora forecast: France
- Paris Kp 7
- Lyon Kp 9
- Toulouse Kp 9
- Nantes Kp 7
- Marne La Vallée Kp 7
- Strasbourg Kp 7
- Bordeaux Kp 9
- Montpellier Kp 9+
- Lille Kp 6
- Paris 15 Vaugirard Kp 7
- Rennes Kp 7
- Reims Kp 7
- Le Havre Kp 6
- Paris 20 Ménilmontant Kp 7
- Paris 18 Buttes-Montmartre Kp 7
- Paris 13 Gobelins Kp 7
- Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont Kp 7
- Saint-Étienne Kp 9
- Angers Kp 7
- Dijon Kp 8
- Paris 16 Passy Kp 7
- Paris 17 Batignolles-Monceau Kp 7
- Grenoble Kp 9
- Nîmes Kp 9
- Clermont-Ferrand Kp 8
- Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Kp 7
- Brest, Brittany Kp 7
- Le Mans Kp 7
- Amiens Kp 6
- Tours Kp 7
- Limoges Kp 8
- Paris 11 Popincourt Kp 7
- Paris 12 Reuilly Kp 7
- Paris 14 Observatoire Kp 7
- Villeurbanne Kp 9
- Besançon Kp 8
- Metz Kp 7
- Orléans, Centre-Val de Loire Kp 7
- Rouen Kp 7
- Mulhouse Kp 8
- Montreuil Kp 7
- Caen Kp 7
- Boulogne-Billancourt Kp 7
- Nancy Kp 7
- Argenteuil Kp 7
- Laval, Pays de la Loire Kp 7
- Dieppe Kp 6
- Mâcon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Kp 8
- Orange, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Kp 9
- Bergerac Kp 9
- Vernon, Normandy Kp 7
Aurora forecast: Poland
- Warsaw Kp 7
- Kraków Kp 8
- Wrocław Kp 7
- Łódź Kp 7
- Poznań Kp 6
- Gdańsk Kp 6
- Szczecin Kp 6
- Lublin Kp 7
- Bydgoszcz Kp 6
- Białystok Kp 6
- Katowice Kp 8
- Gdynia Kp 5
- Częstochowa Kp 7
- Sosnowiec Kp 8
- Radom Kp 7
- Mokotów Kp 7
- Gliwice Kp 7
- Rzeszów Kp 8
- Toruń Kp 6
- Kielce Kp 7
- Zabrze Kp 7
- Bytom Kp 7
- Praga Południe Kp 7
- Bielsko-Biala Kp 8
- Olsztyn Kp 6
- Ursynów Kp 7
- Ruda Śląska Kp 8
- Rybnik Kp 8
- Wola Kp 7
- Bielany Kp 7
- Tychy Kp 8
- Białołeka Kp 7
- Opole Kp 7
- Elbląg Kp 6
- Płock Kp 6
- Wałbrzych Kp 7
- Targówek Kp 7
- Bemowo Kp 7
- Włocławek Kp 6
- Zielona Góra Kp 6
- Tarnów Kp 8
- Dąbrowa Górnicza Kp 8
- Gorzów Wielkopolski Kp 6
- Chorzów Kp 8
- Kalisz Kp 7
- Koszalin Kp 5
- Legnica Kp 7
- Police Kp 6
- Zakopane Kp 8
Aurora forecast: The Netherlands
- Rotterdam Kp 6
- Amsterdam Kp 5
- The Hague Kp 6
- Utrecht Kp 6
- Groningen Kp 5
- Eindhoven Kp 6
- Tilburg Kp 6
- Breda Kp 6
- Nijmegen Kp 6
- Almere Stad Kp 5
- Haarlem Kp 5
- Arnhem Kp 6
- 's-Hertogenbosch Kp 6
- Enschede Kp 6
- Zaanstad Kp 5
- Amersfoort Kp 6
- Apeldoorn Kp 6
- Hoofddorp Kp 5
- Zwolle Kp 5
- Leeuwarden Kp 5
- Maastricht Kp 6
- Leiden Kp 6
- Dordrecht Kp 6
- Zoetermeer Kp 6
- Venlo Kp 6
- Zaandam Kp 5
- Goes Kp 6
- Bergen, North Holland Kp 5
- Best Kp 6
Aurora forecast: Ukraine
- Kyiv Kp 8
- Kharkiv Kp 9
- Lviv Kp 8
- Vinnytsya Kp 9
- Chernihiv Kp 8
- Poltava Kp 9
- Khmelnytskyi Kp 9
- Cherkasy Kp 9
- Chernivtsi Kp 9
- Zhytomyr Kp 8
- Sumy Kp 8
- Rivne Kp 8
- Ivano-Frankivsk Kp 9
- Kamyanske Kp 9
- Ternopil Kp 8
- Kremenchuk Kp 9
- Kropyvnytskyi Kp 9
- Lutsk Kp 8
- Bila Tserkva Kp 9
- Uzhhorod Kp 9
- Brovary Kp 8
- Brody Kp 8
Aurora forecast: Italy
Aurora forecast: Belarus
Aurora forecast: Ireland
- Dublin Kp 4
- Cork Kp 5
- Limerick Kp 4
- Galway Kp 4
- Tallaght Kp 4
- Waterford, Munster Kp 5
- Drogheda Kp 4
- Dundalk, Leinster Kp 4
- Swords Kp 4
- Navan Kp 4
- Bray Kp 4
- Dún Laoghaire Kp 4
Aurora forecast: Belgium
- Brussels Kp 6
- Antwerp Kp 6
- Gent Kp 6
- Charleroi Kp 6
- Liège Kp 6
- Anderlecht Kp 6
- Schaerbeek Kp 6
- Brugge Kp 6
- Namur Kp 6
- Leuven Kp 6
- Forest Kp 6
- Waterloo, Wallonia Kp 6
Aurora forecast: Spain
- Bilbao Kp 9
- Vigo Kp 9
- Gijón Kp 9
- Gasteiz / Vitoria Kp 9
- A Coruña Kp 9
- Oviedo Kp 9
- Pamplona Kp 9
- Donostia / San Sebastián Kp 9
- Santander Kp 9
- León, Castille and León Kp 9
- Ourense Kp 9
- Barakaldo Kp 9
Aurora forecast: Sweden
- Stockholm Kp 3
- Gothenburg Kp 3
- Malmö Kp 5
- Uppsala Kp 3
- Linköping Kp 3
- Örebro Kp 3
- Sollentuna Kp 3
- Umeå Kp 1
- Västerås Kp 3
- Jönköping Kp 4
- Helsingborg Kp 4
Aurora forecast: Finland
Aurora forecast: Hungary
- Budapest Kp 9
- Debrecen Kp 9
- Szeged Kp 9+
- Miskolc Kp 9
- Pécs Kp 9
- Győr Kp 9
- Nyíregyháza Kp 9
- Kecskemét Kp 9
- Székesfehérvár Kp 9
- Baja Kp 9
Aurora forecast: Norway
Aurora forecast: Austria
Aurora forecast: Czechia
Aurora forecast: Switzerland
Aurora forecast: Kazakhstan
Aurora forecast: Australia
- Geelong Kp 9
- Hobart Kp 7
- Launceston Kp 8
- Frankston East Kp 9
- Warrnambool Kp 9
Aurora forecast: Denmark
- Copenhagen Kp 4
- Århus Kp 4
- Odense Kp 4
- Aalborg Kp 4
Aurora forecast: Slovakia
- Bratislava Kp 8
- Košice Kp 8
- Petržalka Kp 8
- Martin Kp 8
Aurora forecast: New Zealand
- Christchurch Kp 9
- Dunedin Kp 7
- Invercargill Kp 7
- Rolleston Kp 9
Aurora forecast: Lithuania
Aurora forecast: Romania
Aurora forecast: Croatia
Aurora forecast: Latvia
- Riga Kp 5
Aurora forecast: Estonia
- Tallinn Kp 4
Aurora forecast: Slovenia
- Ljubljana Kp 9
Aurora forecast: Moldova
- Bălţi Kp 9
Aurora forecast: Iceland
- Reykjavík Kp 0
Aurora forecast: Luxembourg
- Luxembourg Kp 7
Aurora forecast: Argentina
- Ushuaia Kp 9
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Data: NOAA SWPC (Kp, OVATION), Open-Meteo, GeoNames.