Aurora Alerts - Northern Lights forecast
Maxim Letovaltsev Weather In-app purchases
Get notified when the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) will appear
- Rating
- 2.6
- 720 ratings
- Downloads
- 488K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Jul 12
- 2026 · v2.7
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About Aurora Alerts - Northern Lights forecast
Aurora Alerts is an app designed to monitor real-time auroral activity and push alert to let you know if there may be aurora borealis (northern lights) visible tonight. Whenever you are home or away, Aurora Alerts will notify you if the possibility of seeing the northern lights exists.
Main features:
- short-term aurora forecast for next hour with weather conditions and moon Illumination
- long-term aurora forecast for the next 3 days with weather conditions
- long-term northern lights forecast for the next 27 days
- show probability to see Northern Lights based on your or custom location
- current auroral activity (based on observed and predicted Kp Indices from U.S. Air Force Weather Agency)
- weather forecast to check visibility conditions before planning to see northern lights
- solar wind data directly from the NASA satellite (wind speed, Bz, Bt and density)
- unlike many other apps, it uses the local time instead of UTC
Alerts:
- when northern lights may be visible at current or custom location at the horizon or overhead
- Kp index reaches chosen value
- solar wind data reach chosen values
- you can filter out alerts based on time of the day
Boost your chances of viewing the northern lights!
Main features:
- short-term aurora forecast for next hour with weather conditions and moon Illumination
- long-term aurora forecast for the next 3 days with weather conditions
- long-term northern lights forecast for the next 27 days
- show probability to see Northern Lights based on your or custom location
- current auroral activity (based on observed and predicted Kp Indices from U.S. Air Force Weather Agency)
- weather forecast to check visibility conditions before planning to see northern lights
- solar wind data directly from the NASA satellite (wind speed, Bz, Bt and density)
- unlike many other apps, it uses the local time instead of UTC
Alerts:
- when northern lights may be visible at current or custom location at the horizon or overhead
- Kp index reaches chosen value
- solar wind data reach chosen values
- you can filter out alerts based on time of the day
Boost your chances of viewing the northern lights!
What’s new
Version 2.7 · Updated July 12, 2026
Fixed an issue where solar data wasn't displaying correctly
User reviews
App works great!
I just installed it on another device, and everything shows south pole and southern ocean. Don't know what my phone was doing. Apologies for error.
Great app. like the layout and info. seems reliable. thanks for cool app.
It says northern lights are over but it cloudy so I have never seen them
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