Aurora locations / Isle of Lewis

Aurora tonight in Isle of Lewis

Name: Isle of Lewis
Address: Scotland & Northern Isles, United Kingdom

Scotland & Northern Isles, United Kingdom · 58.21°N, 6.39°W

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Visibility is currently blocked or unlikely. Heavy cloud cover prevent clear viewing from your location.

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Visibility score3/100
Current Kp1.0
Cloud cover79%

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Why Isle of Lewis

The Outer Hebrides offer dark Atlantic skies and the standing stones of Callanish for foreground.

How much activity you need here

At 58.2° geographic latitude, aurora typically becomes visible here once the planetary Kp index reaches about 4. Stronger geomagnetic storms push the oval overhead and light up more of the sky.

Best time to go

The northern aurora season runs from late August to mid-April, when nights are long enough to be truly dark. Around midwinter the sky can stay dark almost all day; in high summer the midnight sun makes viewing impossible.

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