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When can I see the aurora?

By Leon Unruh / Alaska.com

Winter visitors have the best chance of seeing the northern lights, or aurora borealis. Even though the electromagnetic activity that creates the aurora occurs all year high overhead, the lights are visible only at night -- and Alaska's long winter nights make for good viewing.

The aurora may not be visible every night in the winter.

The aurora isn't visible in the summer before mid- to late August.

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