Northern lights in Qaqortoq: what to expect
- Latitude
- 60.72° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 67.7°
- Kp needed
- Any
- Clear-night chance
- ~75%
Qaqortoq lies at 60.72° N in Kujalleq, Greenland, about 649 km south of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 67.7°, it sits under the auroral oval: even quiet nights (Kp 1–2) can bring aurora overhead. Over the long term, a dark, clear night here has roughly a 75% chance of some visible aurora.
Nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from early August to early 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 14.5 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights, and we have no long-term cloud record near Qaqortoq. 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.