Aurora Beacon
Northern Lights Forecast
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Now with expanded Moon details, bright comets, eclipses, meteor showers and planet events — plus practical guidance on when and where to look.
Aurora Beacon is a Northern Lights and Southern Lights forecast app designed to answer the question that matters most: is it worth going outside tonight?
Instead of relying on a single global aurora index, Aurora Beacon combines live space weather, darkness, cloud cover, Moon conditions and your location to give you a practical local aurora forecast.
SEE THE AURORA TONIGHT
• Local aurora forecast and visibility guidance
• Northern Lights and Southern Lights viewing information
• Space-weather activity and real local viewing conditions kept clearly separate
• Best viewing window and the biggest factor helping or limiting your chances
• Recent trends showing how conditions are changing
FOLLOW THE AURORA
• Full aurora visibility map
• Northern and southern aurora views
• Immediate local aurora alerts
• Light-pollution and darker-horizon planning
• Viewing spots and Horizon Compass
UNDERSTAND THE SPACE WEATHER
Follow the journey from the Sun to Earth with solar imagery, solar-wind conditions, geomagnetic activity, regional ground observations and solar-event context.
See how solar storms, coronal holes, high-speed solar wind and geomagnetic activity can affect your chances of seeing the aurora.
COMMUNITY
See approved aurora photographs from real observers and contribute your own sightings. Public Community locations are kept approximate rather than exposing a precise private observing position.
AURORA BEACON PLUS
The core Aurora Beacon experience remains free. Aurora Beacon Plus adds deeper Advanced intelligence, Coronal Hole Watch, Solar Events and future/HSS outlook alerts.
Aurora and Northern Lights forecasting is uncertain by nature. Aurora Beacon is designed to make that uncertainty useful and understandable rather than promise that an aurora will appear.
Terms of Use (EULA):
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy:
https://aurorabeacon.space/privacy
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What’s New
• Expanded Moon details with more useful viewing information
• Added bright comet tracking and visibility guidance
• Added solar and lunar eclipse information, including local viewing details
• Added meteor shower events and viewing guidance
• Added planet events, including conjunctions and oppositions
• New guidance to help you understand when, where and how to see upcoming sky events
The developer, Neil Thomas, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Neil Thomas
- Size
- 90.1 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Contains
User-Generated Content
Social Media
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Aurora Beacon Plus Monthly $2.99
- Aurora Beacon Plus Yearly $24.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Neil Thomas