The aurora borealis usually remains very strong two-three years each side of the solar maximum, so if you're thinking about travelling soon, your timing is good! Iceland & Northern Lights: Where To Go To See Them Getting away from the city is best to see the aurora. That's when the aurora will be strongest, most visible and frequent. The last solar maximum was in 2014, and the next solar maximum is set for 2024. During solar minimum, the lights will be a lot weaker and less frequent than at solar maximum. There's also a longer term Solar Cycle which runs over 11 years and dictates how strong the northern lights will be, in regards to perturbations of the sun.
The optimal time to see the lights tends to be around 9pm-1am, though they can be visible in the dark anytime, and in winter in Iceland, it’s dark a lot of the time. But for best results? Visit in those months.
This does happen, for sure, even during high season. Obviously there are no guarantees - if storms come in and cloud up the skies, then the lights will be covered and you won't see them. Northern lights season is often said to run from late September to late March, the peak of which is those two months - September and March - due to the equinox. Every other time of year, you've got a chance. The reason you won't spot the northern lights in Iceland between late April and early August is because there's no darkness. Not total, pitch-black darkness, but you need it to be dark. See, in order to see the northern lights, you need darkness. More important than where to go to see the northern lights in Iceland, is when. There are two frequently asked questions about going to see the aurora borealis. When to See the Northern Lights in Iceland The best months to see the northern lights in Iceland are September and March. So how and where do you see the northern lights in Iceland? Let's have a look. The aurora borealis are the first thing a lot of people think of when they think of Iceland, along, perhaps, with that mountain in the photo above (it's called Kirkjufell Mountain by the way), and the infamously hard to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull volcano - which once grounded a whole lot of flights by erupting. They're beautiful, they'll make your jaw drop, and a lot of people who see them feel compelled to stick a photo of them on Instagram. Iceland and the northern lights go hand in hand together like puppies (when viewed from mid-August to mid-April) and being cute. Though actually, puppies are cute year round, and you can only see the northern lights in Iceland from mid-August to mid-April, so that analogy doesn’t really work. Iceland and the northern lights go hand in hand like puppies and being cute.
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