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Northern lights guides, from our data
How to plan an aurora trip, written from ten winters of camera and sky data rather than from hearsay.
Planning · Thursday 29 October 2026Best time to see the northern lights: month by month, from ten winters of dataThe best months are the ones that are both dark and clear. Here is when aurora cameras saw it most often, and when low cloud was rarest at twelve destinations, from ten winters of airport reports.The moon · Wednesday 28 October 2026Does a full moon ruin the northern lights? What our camera data showsA full moon does not ruin the northern lights, but it hides the faint ones. When we checked moonlit camera frames by eye, about half of the aurora the cameras recorded was still worth seeing for a person.
