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G2Peak 13 March 2022 at 21:00 UTC

Northern Lights on 13 March 2022 (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 15 hours.

03579 G1 G3 Sat 12 Mar 12:00 UTC · Kp 1.00 Sat 12 Mar 15:00 UTC · Kp 0.33 Sat 12 Mar 18:00 UTC · Kp 1.00 Sat 12 Mar 21:00 UTC · Kp 1.33 Sun 13 Mar 00:00 UTC · Kp 1.33 Sun 13 Mar 03:00 UTC · Kp 0.67 Sun 13 Mar 06:00 UTC · Kp 0.33 Sun 13 Mar 09:00 UTC · Kp 4.00 Sun 13 Mar 12:00 UTC · Kp 5.67 Sun 13 Mar 15:00 UTC · Kp 5.33 Sun 13 Mar 18:00 UTC · Kp 5.67 Sun 13 Mar 21:00 UTC · Kp 6.33 Mon 14 Mar 00:00 UTC · Kp 5.67 Mon 14 Mar 03:00 UTC · Kp 2.67 Mon 14 Mar 06:00 UTC · Kp 1.67 Mon 14 Mar 09:00 UTC · Kp 1.67 Mon 14 Mar 12:00 UTC · Kp 1.67 Mon 14 Mar 15:00 UTC · Kp 2.00 Mon 14 Mar 18:00 UTC · Kp 0.67 Mon 14 Mar 21:00 UTC · Kp 1.00 Tue 15 Mar 00:00 UTC · Kp 1.00 Sun 13 MarMon 14 MarTue 15 Mar
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

2,144 towns on our list had enough activity while it was dark there. Cloud cover is not included.

CountryPlacesExamplesFurthest from the pole
United States 543 Seattle, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis Cedar Rapids
United Kingdom 414 Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds Nottingham
Canada 376 Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa St. John's
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
New Zealand 9 Dunedin, Invercargill, Mosgiel, Wānaka Wānaka
Australia 7 Hobart, Launceston, Devonport, Burnie Burnie
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

3,004 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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