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G2Peak 29 January 1995 at 21:00 UTC

Northern Lights on 29 January 1995 (Kp 6.3): Where They Were Visible

Kp reached 6.3. At that level the edge of the auroral oval reaches about 53.8° magnetic latitude, so the aurora could be seen low on the horizon down to roughly 49.3°. Activity stayed at storm level (Kp 5 or more) for 9 hours.

03579 G1 G3 Sat 28 Jan 21:00 UTC · Kp 1.00 Sun 29 Jan 00:00 UTC · Kp 2.00 Sun 29 Jan 03:00 UTC · Kp 4.67 Sun 29 Jan 06:00 UTC · Kp 2.67 Sun 29 Jan 09:00 UTC · Kp 3.67 Sun 29 Jan 12:00 UTC · Kp 4.00 Sun 29 Jan 15:00 UTC · Kp 4.33 Sun 29 Jan 18:00 UTC · Kp 4.33 Sun 29 Jan 21:00 UTC · Kp 6.33 Mon 30 Jan 00:00 UTC · Kp 5.33 Mon 30 Jan 03:00 UTC · Kp 5.00 Mon 30 Jan 06:00 UTC · Kp 4.00 Mon 30 Jan 09:00 UTC · Kp 4.00 Mon 30 Jan 12:00 UTC · Kp 3.67 Mon 30 Jan 15:00 UTC · Kp 4.67 Mon 30 Jan 18:00 UTC · Kp 5.00 Mon 30 Jan 21:00 UTC · Kp 5.00 Tue 31 Jan 00:00 UTC · Kp 5.33 Tue 31 Jan 03:00 UTC · Kp 4.33 Sun 29 JanMon 30 JanTue 31 Jan
Kp 0–3 Kp 4 Kp 5–6 (G1–G2) Kp 7+ (G3+) Times in UTC; faded bars are forecasts.

Three-hourly Kp from GFZ, one day either side of the storm.

Where the aurora could be seen

2,176 towns on our list had enough activity while it was dark there. Cloud cover is not included.

CountryPlacesExamplesFurthest from the pole
United States 564 Seattle, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis Cedar Rapids
United Kingdom 414 Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds Nottingham
Canada 403 Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa Eastern Passage
Sweden 148 Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Uppsala Trelleborg
Finland 123 Helsinki, Espoon keskus, Tampere urban area, Vantaa Raseborg
Denmark 94 Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense, Aalborg Nykøbing Falster
Poland 90 Gdańsk, Szczecin, Bydgoszcz, Białystok Bydgoszcz
Germany 84 Hamburg, Bremen, Kiel, Lübeck Bremen
Norway 77 Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger Mandal
Ireland 49 Dublin, Limerick, Galway, Tallaght Kilkenny
Latvia 39 Riga, Daugavpils, Liepāja, Jelgava Daugavpils
Lithuania 31 Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda City Municipality, Šiauliai Druskininkai
Estonia 21 Tallinn, Tartu, Narva, Pärnu Võru
Iceland 18 Reykjavík, Kópavogur, Hafnarfjörður, Reykjanesbær Vík í Mýrdal
Netherlands 7 Groningen, Leeuwarden, Drachten, Sneek Drachten
Greenland 6 Nuuk, Sisimiut, Ilulissat, Qaqortoq Qaqortoq
Faroe Islands 4 Tórshavn, Klaksvík, Fuglafjørður, Miðvágur Tórshavn
Kazakhstan 3 Kostanay, Petropavl, Kokshetau Kostanay
Svalbard & Jan Mayen 1 Longyearbyen Longyearbyen
Based on each place's Kp threshold (terrain included) and the Sun's position during each 3-hour Kp block.

Only in photos

2,981 more towns could have caught a faint red or green glow low on the horizon with a phone or camera.

Whether the aurora was actually seen also depended on the weather. Use this as a guide to where it was possible.

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