hello all we are travellinh to Alaska in beggining of sept. I saw some tour companies offer northern lights tour ANC. Foss anyone has experience seeing nirthern lights near ANC ? Do we need a special tour which takes us to some remote areas to see rhe lights or we can see them ftom ANC assuming there is high activity forecast ? Any inputs from ppl who visited Alaska?
What about Iceland in September?
Sept is too early and anchorage is too south. Try to go to Yellowknife in mid winter for a show of a lifetime. If you’re cultured and want to make it out to Europe, go to Kiruna in Sweden, or tongsberg in Norway.
There is a high chance on sept 1st according to the forecast
Is this not reliable ?
This is 80% reliable
We went in September and saw beautiful northern lights at Fairbanks.
Weather has to be clear. Just KP index isn't sufficient to say about good chance of viewing. And for good chance, travel North of Denali np. Fairbanks/Coldfoot are good. In Fairbanks, you can go to Murphy dome/chena river bank/clearly summit. You can go by yourself as long weekend will have high footfall in all these places. I went in October end and hardly I could find any human being in and around these places.
Cool thanks ... unfortunately we aren’t going to Fairbanks. Now it’s tough to change the schedule. I wanted to know if any one took the tours from anc ?
If you fly to anchorage during the night you will most certainly see them in the plane on the flight in the northeast sky starting in September. See them on a daily basis when it gets dark at night across the North Pole.
You should be fine. I’ve seen them in Alaska on multiple nights during the first week of September.
We went to a town called Talkeetna which is a 1 hour drive north Anchorage and saw a beautiful show. Also you can meet the town mayor in the bar which is a cat 😀 we also did fairbanks the previous year and saw northern lights. Make sure you go there after new moon and not near full moon.
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Anchorage is a little south, so you'll only see them there if the band passes through Anchorage and the kp index is high, like 5+. You'll have a better chance near Fairbanks.