Aurora Borealis in Chesterfield
United Kingdom · 53.25°, -1.42° · geomagnetic 55.3° · needs Kp 7
Tonight's aurora forecast for Chesterfield
6%
Peak chance of a visible display tonight, from the same model the Revon app runs. Chesterfield needs Kp 7 to see anything at all, and tonight the forecast peaks at Kp 4.9. Short of the threshold, which is what most nights look like here.
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Updated 2026-09-08 10:36 UTC
Local aurora guide for Chesterfield
Chesterfield is at a geomagnetic latitude of 55.3°.
Auroras visible at Kp 7 occur about 2.7 nights per year.
The record span for these observations is from 2016 to 2026.
The best months for viewing are September, August, and November.
Chesterfield experiences no full darkness from May to July.
Chesterfield has a Bortle scale rating of 8.
Dark sky areas, Bortle 4, are located 100 km north-north-west near North Yorkshire.
Bortle 5 conditions are found 78 km east near East Lindsey.
Hardwick Hill is a hill located 3.8 km north of Chesterfield.
Cobnar Hill is a hill situated 4.3 km north-west of Chesterfield.
Don Island is an island 19.9 km north of Chesterfield. High Neb, a mountain, is 20.5 km north-west of Chesterfield. Wardlow Hay Cop is a mountain 21.1 km west of Chesterfield.
There are 104 verified aurora reports within 300 km of Chesterfield between 2015 and 2016.
The data indicates approximately 2.7 viable aurora nights per year.
Qualifying nights on record include March 20, 2026 (Kp 7.0), January 20, 2026 (Kp 7.67), January 19, 2026 (Kp 8.67), November 12, 2025 (Kp 7.33), and November 11, 2025 (Kp 8.67).
Sources: Revon analysis of NOAA planetary Kp · Solar declination and hour-angle calculation · Falchi 2016 World Atlas of artificial night sky brightness · GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) · Aurorasaurus verified positive reports
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