Are the Northern Lights on your bucket list? Here’s a helpful planning tip…
To have the best viewing experience, there are three things to consider: darkness, clear skies and aurora activity. The best season to see the northern lights in Iceland is from September to mid-April – these are the months where there are full dark nights.
The bright dancing lights of the aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere. The lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. They are known as 'Aurora borealis' in the north and 'Aurora australis' in the south.
The best possible location to view this wonder, Aurora Borealis, is Thingvellir (which is a national park, as well as a historic site). Auroral displays appear in many colours although pale green and pink are the most common. Shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and violet have been reported. The lights appear in many forms from patches or scattered clouds of light to streamers, arcs, rippling curtains or shooting rays that light up the sky with an eerie glow. Be sure you check the weather so that you have a combination of dark and partially clear skies.
