Aurora Forecast App

Never Miss the Northern Lights Again

The professional Northern Lights forecasting app – free, ad-free and designed by an Arctic guide – Sergiu from Aurora Labs. Receive live alerts, check community reports, and get notified of the perfect moment to step outside.

Live alerts for your location

Aurora forecast app with notification alerts

See what others are seeing, instantly

Quick and easy reading with color codes

Your Aurora hunter, in your pocket – free and ad-free

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, Aurora Forecast by Aurora Labs is completely free to use and contains no ads. It’s a passion project kept alive by the voluntary support of its users.

Yes. Aurora Forecast by Aurora Labs is available on Android devices as a native app. You can install it via Google Play.

For Apple iPhone users, the app is currently available as a web app. On your iPhone, open this link and add the page to your Home screen.

The app aggregates data from professional, scientific sources, including NOAA (for Aurora and solar wind data), MET Norway (for weather, sun and moon data), and NASA (for live sun images), as well as live reports from the app’s user community, via Aurora Labs’ Nordlysrapporteringssystemet (Northern Lights reporting system).

This usually means there is a temporary issue with the live data source from NOAA, MET Norway or another provider. Please check back in a few minutes, and it should resolve itself.

Most of the live solar data (Kp, Bz, etc.) updates every few minutes. The “Local Reports” tile also updates every few minutes to show you the latest sightings. You can press the refresh icon on that tile for an instant update.

This is almost always because your app’s alert location is different from your current location. To fix this:

Go to the app’s Dashboard and press the geolocation button to update your position, or search for a location you’d like to monitor via notifications.
Go to the Settings page.
Flip the notification toggle you want OFF and then ON again. This syncs your new location with the alert system.

If the problem persists, check your phone’s Settings:

On Android, check if you allowed notifications for the app in your phone’s Settings
On iPhone, check that you allowed Safari to send you notifications and then, check if Safari’s notifications for the Aurora Forecast web app are enabled.

This is likely a location mismatch. Your phone received an alert for a location you set previously, but you are now in a new place with different conditions. Follow the steps in the question above to resync your location.

Yes. Any active notification toggle will monitor the same notification location, which you previously set.

This is normal. The push alert is triggered by a sensitive, frequently-updated computer model from NOAA that predicts potential geomagnetic storms for the next 24 hours. The forecast you see in the app is a more stable, human-written summary that is updated less often and may smooth over these brief predictions. The alert is your earliest possible “heads-up.”

No. All reports are 100% anonymous.

No. Only you can ever see your own location (the blue pin). When you submit a report, the green or red pin that appears on the map is placed at an anonymized location within about 1 km of your actual position to protect your privacy.

You can only send a report when you are geolocalized.

The map data and dashboard tile refresh automatically every few minutes. Please wait a moment for it to synchronize. You can also get an instant update by pressing the refresh icon on the “Local Reports” tile on the dashboard.

As a token of appreciation, supporters receive a code to remove the support banner from the dashboard.

Go to the Settings page or the app menu and tap on “I’m a Supporter.” Enter the code you received in the thank-you message after your contribution (that is also sent to you in the e-mail receipt).

First, close the app completely. This means also to close the cached process (usually, this means that you show all open apps (Android third button, and you swipe upwards the app to close the cached process). Reopen the app.

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