Northern Lights In 2024. When they happen near the south pole, they’re called the southern lights or. Stay updated on the best times to see the northern lights with accurate aurora activity predictions.

The northern lights happen most often in areas near the arctic circle like northern norway, swedish lapland, finland, iceland, and northern canada. During an extreme event in may 2024, the aurora borealis was visible as far south as india, morocco and mexico and the aurora australis as far north as perth, australia, argentina, and namibia.