Northern Lights Aurora Forecast
Live KP & Magnetic Field Info
Get a fast-loading and accurate KP value to know when the aurora borealis will be active. Northern Lights also has live magnetic field info such as Bz, Density, and Speed!
Aurora Forecast
Unleash the power of easy to read graphs to see a forecast of realistic and potential KP values over the next few hours, as well as 3-day and 27-day KP forecast.
Light Pollution Map
The integrated Light Pollution Map helps you find the darkest places near you for the best viewing of the aurora boralis, and the night sky. Our light pollution map has global coverage and is the most detailed and accurate light pollution map available.
Live Northern Lights Webcams
Watch live northern lights webcams from around the world!
Live Aurora Map
See where the best viewing of the Northern Lights (Aurora) currently is on our live Aurora Map.
Widgets
Prefer using widgets to get quick information? In Northern Lights, we have 3 types of widgets that show live aurora information, magnetic field information, darkness countdown timer, cloud coverage, and outdoor temperature!
Cloud Cover Map
Before you even step outside, you will know if the aurora will even be visible at all and not obscured by heavy cloud coverage.
Weather
Cloud coverage, temperature, precipitation, humidity, fog, and more!
Alerts
Configure the app to send you alerts for when the aurora is visible at your location, and/or when global geomagnetic activity is high! Never miss the aurora again!
Sun & Moon Info
Get Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, Moonset times; as well as the Moon's phase!
SOHO Sun Images
See live images of the Sun in different spectrums and wavelengths from NASA's SOHO.
In-App Help & Support
Get help, when you need it.
And a lot more!
Some features above are not available in the free version and may require an additional in-app purchase to Northern Lights Pro. Northern Lights Pro is a one time purchase of $3.99 USD and helps us to keep this great app running. The northern lights are beautiful and fantastic to witness.
APIs Used:
Dark Sky
Auroraslive.IO
Northern Lights
Category : Photography
Reviews (25)
this is an awesome app with a lot of technical details about the northern lights worldwide! I'm looking forward to using this and learning more about the northern lights.
easy to use, good graphics, reliable data. pop-up ads are annoying but this is the best free aurora forecast I've come across
Not accurate for Southcentral Alaska for cloud cover or KP activity. Most maps do not load. I found a FB Page that gives more up-to-date data.
On a Norwegian Fjords cruise and the app has been invaluable. Really impressed with its accuracy. Really good user interface too
Downloaded it twice and it never have me any kind of readings and I have excellent coverage and download speeds.
Seems to have stopped functioning.. Edit 09/23/20 widget not functioning. No overlay for the live Aurora map. Going to uninstall.
App just stopped working. It was quite good, now it's shed it's mortal coil, pushing up the daisies, pining for the fjords
Tons of useful info even beyond aurora visibility, and the scientific usefulness & depth act as comfort even when chance of Northern Lights is 0%.
Its very good and tells you everything you need to know also handy maps.
Kept crashing. Couldn't really test.
It isn't loading data and all the good stuff requires the paid version.
Great app! I like it because it gives you the cloud cover statistics as a %, unlike others that just say 'cloudy'
Being an amateur astronomer, the animation on the Aurora is one of my faves!
Great app!! Fingers crossed it'll help me see the lights 🤞
Very easy to use and reliable... A must have..
Bad, saw Northern lights and app says 0 visibility.
I think it is very sad that you do not reply back to people that leaves negative reviews DO NOT DOWNLOAD this app loves to steal people's money.
Ist time user travelling in Arctic circle in a cruise
Great !! love it
It's a great App
This app almost always crashes on opening on my Droid Moto Z Play and when it does open the map overlays will not load. Worse than useless on this phone... App is much improved with last update...now opens but it still hangs when trying to load the aurora map overlay. I now give it 3 stars
I love it i dont care what the other suckers say
I downloaded this app for alerts. But that feature only available in the pro version. If they mention that thing here... I wouldnt have downloaded this.
Very accurate and helpful. Used frequently while in Alaska. Here's a tip: Even if the aurora visibility says it's low, if you are in an area with low light pollution, try taking a long exposure and see what happens.
KP values never load. It just says "loading" forever, no matter how many times I reboot or uninstall/reinstall. A significant chunk of other features in the app don't work either, e.g. most of the aurora cams either show empty boxes on screen or have error messages saying "this cam doesn't exist anymore." Overall it feels like the app has been long neglected by the devs and is no longer being actively developed/debugged/updated. There are many other better free aurora apps on the market.