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Northern lights on your bucket list? The best places around the world to chase them

Your Aurora-spotting options, sorted

Published on: Nov 25, 2025 08:47 PM IST
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‘This scene, feels, like, what I once saw on a screen/ I, searched Aurora Borealis green…’

Northern lights on your bucket list? Best places round the world to chase them (Photo: Shutterstock)
Northern lights on your bucket list? Best places round the world to chase them (Photo: Shutterstock)

If these lines from Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey’s Snow on the Beach hit you like lightening, chances are, experiencing the Northern Lights has been on your bucket list awhile though it goes without saying that chasing the Aurora Borealis is something most would happily do ten times over, simply for how surreal an experience it is. And as it turns out, you’re spoilt for choice.

Norway

Where: Tromso and Svalbard

When: For Tromso, between September and April; for Svalbard, between September to March

Finland

Where: Rovaniemi

When: From August to April

Iceland

When: From September to April

Sweden

Where: Abisko

When: From mid-September to early March

USA

Where: Fairbanks

When: August to April

Greenland

Where: Ilulissat

When: From September to March

Scotland

Where: Outer Hebrides

When: Between March and April and September to October

Alexa, play Snow on the Beach

 
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