Our app's features

Learn more about hello aurora, that helpful Northern Lights application you need for your long chasing night! Check out all the features we have available on the app.

Northern Lights forecast

Northern Lights forecast

Real-time aurora forecast updated every few minutes from accurate real-time sources.

Cloud coverage

Cloud coverage

Find comprehensive cloud coverage data, including high, middle, and low clouds, for Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK.

Moments

Moments

Share your aurora moments with other aurora enthusiasts. With the Pro Version, you can share unlimited moments per day.

Northern Lights locations

Northern Lights locations

Share your location when spotting aurora and see others' locations!

Aurora gallery and stats

Aurora gallery and stats

Pro version

Store all your aurora moments, let others people discover your photos and keep track of your stats in one place.

Notification by range

Notification by range

Pro version

Narrow the aurora report and enable notifications by range of kilometres.

Aurora explanations

Aurora explanations

See everything you need to know when it comes to observing the aurora along with the long-term forecast in an easily understandable way!

Aurora notifications

Aurora notifications

Receive notifications when the aurora is visible, someone else spotted it or some weather alerts are in progress around your location.

Weather alerts

Weather alerts

Only in Iceland

Notify you of the weather alerts and storm warnings that occur around your location.

Road conditions

Road conditions

Only in Iceland

See the road conditions in Iceland. Help you plan your travel easier.

Official sources for more accurency

Using the accurate APIs to gather everything together
NOAA

NOAA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is an American scientific agency.

This is used to get the space and solar data for the aurora forecast.

TGO

TGO

Norwegian agency that maintains, gathers and provides space physics data from Norway.

Real-time data of aurora sightings for users located in Norway.

Leirvogur

Leirvogur

The agency that provides the data from the magnetometer located in Iceland.

Real-time data of aurora sightings for users located in Iceland.

IRF

IRF

The institute carries research and associated observatory activities in space physics.

Real-time data of aurora sightings for users located in Sweden

FMI

FMI

The Finnish Meteorological Institute is the agency gathering and reporting space data.

Real-time data of aurora sightings for users located in Finland.

USGS

USGS

The United States Geological Survey scientific agency providing space data for Alaska and USA.

Real-time data of aurora sightings for users located in Alaska.

CARISMA

CARISMA

CARISMA (Canadian Array for Realtime Investigations of Magnetic Activity) is the magnetometer element of the Geospace Observatory Canada project.

Real-time data of aurora sightings for users located in Western Canada.

Belgingur

Belgingur

Belgingur are experts in high-resolution weather forecast and global Wind Energy.

This is used to get the weather forecast in Iceland.

Veðurstofa Íslands

Veðurstofa Íslands

Icelandic Meteorological Office is Iceland's national weather service.

Data for the weather alerts in Iceland.

MET

MET

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute is Norway's national meteorological institute.

It gives us the weather forecast for Nordics countries.

Vegagerðin

Vegagerðin

The Road and Coastal Administration constructs and maintains roads.

It gives us a real-time status for all the roads around Iceland.

DWD

DWD

Germany's National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD).

It gives us the cloud data for Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

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