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G2Peak 3 March 2024 at 18:00 UTC

Northern Lights on 3 March 2024 (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 2 Mar 12:00 UTC · Kp 1.67 Sat 2 Mar 15:00 UTC · Kp 0.33 Sat 2 Mar 18:00 UTC · Kp 0.33 Sat 2 Mar 21:00 UTC · Kp 0.67 Sun 3 Mar 00:00 UTC · Kp 2.67 Sun 3 Mar 03:00 UTC · Kp 0.67 Sun 3 Mar 06:00 UTC · Kp 0.33 Sun 3 Mar 09:00 UTC · Kp 3.33 Sun 3 Mar 12:00 UTC · Kp 5.00 Sun 3 Mar 15:00 UTC · Kp 5.67 Sun 3 Mar 18:00 UTC · Kp 6.33 Sun 3 Mar 21:00 UTC · Kp 4.00 Mon 4 Mar 00:00 UTC · Kp 4.00 Mon 4 Mar 03:00 UTC · Kp 2.33 Mon 4 Mar 06:00 UTC · Kp 2.00 Mon 4 Mar 09:00 UTC · Kp 1.33 Mon 4 Mar 12:00 UTC · Kp 1.33 Mon 4 Mar 15:00 UTC · Kp 1.00 Mon 4 Mar 18:00 UTC · Kp 1.00 Sun 3 MarMon 4 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

1,410 towns on our list had enough activity while it was dark there. Cloud cover is not included.

CountryPlacesExamplesFurthest from the pole
United Kingdom 414 Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds Nottingham
Sweden 148 Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Uppsala Trelleborg
Finland 123 Helsinki, Espoon keskus, Tampere urban area, Vantaa Raseborg
United States 114 Seattle, Anchorage, Spokane, Tacoma Yakima
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
Canada 71 Vancouver, Surrey, Victoria, Burnaby Sooke
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

1,959 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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