See the Northern Lights, beautiful and exciting as it is!

Nothing compares to sitting on the ground and glancing at the waves of light the lights up the whole sky. Nothing, absolutely nothing. It’s an experience that can not be shares with words - only by being there.

But where? Where can you see Northern Lights?

As the name suggests, the northern lights are most often seen related to the polar regions. They occur most frequently in a belt of radius 2500 km centered on the magnetic north pole. This so-called auroral zone extends over northern Scandinavia, Island, the southern tip of Greenland and continuing over northern Canada, Alaska and along the northern coast of Siberia.

The coasts of the Norwegian counties of Troms and Finnmark lay where occurrence of Northern Lights is greatest, making northern Norway, due to its ease of access and mild winter climate, an attractive destination for people interested in observing this atmospheric phenomenon.

You can see The Northern Lights from regions both north and south of the auroral zone, but the likelihood decreases with distance. There is a corresponding auroral zone around the southern magnetic pole, but these “Southern Lights” are largely only seen from Antarctica and the surrounding ocean.

Of the populated regions in the southern hemisphere, the Southern Lights, may only be glimpsed from Tasmania and southern New Zealand. The Northern and Southern Lights occur simultaneously and are almost mirror images of each other.

Our choice to see the northern lights is Norway!