Aurora holiday destinations

High-latitude gateways for the northern lights — long, dark winter nights. 20 curated picks across 8 countries.

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Whitehorse (YXY) — Yukon dark-sky aurora

Yellowknife (YZF) — NWT — Aurora Village

Ivalo (IVL) — Saariselkä & Inari wilderness

Kittilä (KTT) — Levi & Ylläs fells

Oulu / Oulunsalo (OUL) — Southern Lapland aurora belt

Rovaniemi (RVN) — Finnish Lapland & the Arctic Circle

Nuuk (GOH) — West Greenland aurora

Akureyri (AEY) — North Iceland aurora

Reykjavík (KEF) — Thingvellir & south-coast dark skies

Alta (ALF) — Finnmark clear-sky belt

Andenes (ANX) — Vesterålen aurora (and whales)

Bodø (BOO) — Lofoten & Vesterålen aurora

Evenes (EVE) — Lofoten & Ofoten skies

Kirkenes (KKN) — Far north-east Norway dark skies

Longyearbyen (LYR) — Svalbard polar-night aurora

Tromsø (TOS) — Arctic Norway skies & Lyngen Alps

Kiruna (KRN) — Abisko & Swedish Lapland

Luleå (LLA) — Swedish Lapland aurora

Inverness (INV) — Scottish Highlands aurora

Fairbanks (FAI) — Alaska interior & Chena

Holiday picks are FlightMVP's own curation. Reachability reflects historical scheduled service in the OpenFlights dataset and may be out of date.