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Akureyri vs Lofoten Islands

Two places, side by side, in the same language every spot page uses: the Kp each needs, tonight's live verdict, twelve months of real cloud cover, the season, and how often the sky has reached each threshold this past year.

Between them

Lofoten Islands is clearer in 7 of 7 dark months; tonight the better sky is over Akureyri.

Watch point
Akureyri
🇮🇸 Iceland · Northern Europe · N
Watch point
Lofoten Islands
🇳🇴 Norway · Northern Europe · N
The Kp each needs
Akureyri
Kp 1+
a glow on the horizon · Kp 3 overhead · 67° geomagnetic
deep under the auroral oval — quiet nights are often enough
Lofoten Islands
Kp 1+
a glow on the horizon · Kp 3 overhead · 65° geomagnetic
deep under the auroral oval — quiet nights are often enough
Tonight · live
Akureyri
better tonight
Maybe.It's borderline.
peak tonight Kp 4.7 · oval now 10% · 8.5 h dark (~20:45–05:14 local · UTC)
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Lofoten Islands
Overcast.The sky is clouded over.
peak tonight Kp 4.7 · oval now 14% · 8.1 h dark (~20:48–04:55 local · UTC+2)
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Clear sky by month · ERA5 climatology
Akureyri

Clearest dark months: Jan, Mar, Sep.

Lofoten Islands
clearer

Clearest dark months: Mar, Sep, Oct.

Clear sky = 100 − mean cloud cover; outlined months are each place's three clearest dark months; faint months have no night with an hour of astronomical darkness. ERA5 reanalysis, 2015–2024 monthly mean — climatology, not a forecast; a regional ~25 km grid, local microclimates are not captured. Darkness & moon calendar → Best month, all spots →

Season
Akureyri
late August to late April
when the nights are long and dark
Lofoten Islands
late August to mid April
when the nights are long and dark
How often, historically · last 365 days
Same for both
361 / 365
days the global daily-max Kp reached this spot's Kp 1 — GFZ definitive record

Kp is a global index — the thresholds are each spot's own, from its geomagnetic latitude; a book spot borrows its parent watch point's geomagnetic fields and climatology row. Tonight's verdict is NOAA Kp + Open-Meteo cloud + the moon, the same call every spot page makes. Best month, all spots → Plan the trip →