Northern lights in Copenhagen: what to expect
- Latitude
- 55.68° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 52.1°
- Kp needed
- 7+
- Clear-night chance
- ~2%
Copenhagen lies at 55.68° N in Capital Region, Denmark, about 1,210 km south of the Arctic Circle. Aurora is rare this far south (geomagnetic latitude about 52.1°). It takes a strong storm, around Kp 7 or more, before it shows low in the north, so watch the live score and storm alerts rather than planning a night around it.
Nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from mid-July to late May; in the light summer nights between, the aurora cannot be seen. Around the winter solstice the sun is more than 12° below the horizon for about 14 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights, and we have no long-term cloud record near Copenhagen. The hourly score above uses the live cloud forecast for this exact spot, so on a storm night it shows whether the sky is open where you are.
Coordinates: Wikipedia. Magnetic latitude, Kp and darkness are calculated from them; the clear-night chance is a long-term average, not a forecast.