Aurora forecasting for Aotearoa New Zealand

Tonight,
look south.

Spot The Aurora reads the solar wind as it arrives and gives you a straight answer: is it worth driving out tonight, and when.

Made in New Zealand, watched by 60,000 people who would rather be standing in a paddock at 2am than reading about it the next morning. The most comprehensive free aurora and solar dashboard available to the public, anywhere.

60,000
Active users checking the southern sky
1,000
Locations across the country with localised forecasts
24/7
Live satellite and ground-station data, updated continuously

What it does

Every tool an aurora
chaser reaches for.

FORECAST

One score, your latitude

No Kp index to decode. A single number adjusted to where you actually are, and a plain call on whether to go.

SUBSTORM

Warning before the peak

A physics-based model gives a likelihood and a time window before the display builds, not a report after it fades.

SOLAR

Seven days of the Sun

X-ray flux, proton flux, flares, sunspots, and interplanetary shocks, with alerts the moment something significant erupts.

CME

Watch it travel in 3D

A world-first live model of coronal mass ejections in transit from the Sun to Earth, alongside official NASA, NOAA, and ESA forecasts.

SIGHTINGS

What the country is seeing

Live reports from over 1,000 locations, including honest reports of clear skies and nothing visible, which matter just as much.

ALERTS

Only the ones you want

Set your own score threshold and flare classes. Your phone stays quiet until the sky is doing something.

No app store.
Just open it.

Runs in your browser, installs to your home screen in one tap.

Open Spot The Aurora