We watch this sky for a living

Northern Lights Forecast is a North60 project, built by the team behind Northern Lights Resort & Spa, a TripAdvisor Best of the Best property outside Whitehorse, Yukon, with over 1,100 reviews, most of them from guests who came for one thing overhead.

Why we built this

Every generic Aurora app runs on the same map-based Kp table, and that table is wrong for a lot of places: including here. Whitehorse sits at 60.7°N on a map, but the Aurora doesn't follow geography, it follows Earth's magnetic field, and magnetically we're closer to 63°N. That gap means a Kp level that's a non-event in the Lower 48 can be a green band across the whole sky from here. We built this tool to calibrate to magnetic latitude, not the geographic number every other site uses.

What running a resort every night teaches you

Forecasting the Aurora from a spreadsheet is different from standing outside checking the sky against it, night after night, season after season. That's the gap between a number on a chart and what's actually visible. It's why this tool leans on Bz, the earliest real signal a storm is coming, instead of waiting for Kp to catch up, and why cloud cover gets weighted as heavily as geomagnetic activity: a perfect Kp reading behind an overcast sky is still a bust.

Built by operators, not aggregators

Most Aurora forecast sites are anonymous affiliate pages with no skin in the game. This one comes from Northern Lights Resort & Spa, rated 5.0 on TripAdvisor's Best of the Best with 1,100+ reviews, a short drive outside Whitehorse. If you're planning a trip to the Yukon, that's where we'd point you.

Curious what actually powers the numbers you see here? See where the data comes from.