Aurora Borealis in Sault Ste. Marie
Canada · 46.52°, -84.33° · geomagnetic 55.6° · needs Kp 7
Tonight's aurora forecast for Sault Ste. Marie
8%
Peak chance of a visible display tonight, from the same model the Revon app runs. Sault Ste. Marie needs Kp 7 to see anything at all, and tonight the forecast peaks at Kp 5.0. Short of the threshold, which is what most nights look like here.
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Updated 2026-09-08 10:35 UTC
Local aurora guide for Sault Ste. Marie
Sault Ste. Marie generally needs planetary Kp 7 before the aurora borealis reaches the local sky. Historical Kp and darkness data produce about 3.2 viable nights a year across 10.0 years of records.
The strongest historical overlap of darkness and activity occurs in May, September and August.
The central sky is approximately Bortle 4. The supplied darker-sky reference is 26 km east at Bortle 2.
Aurorasaurus recorded 64 verified reports within 300 km of Sault Ste. Marie between 2015-01-01 and 2016-12-31. These records describe past observations, not tonight's prediction.
Sources: Revon analysis of NOAA planetary Kp · Solar declination and hour-angle calculation · Falchi 2016 World Atlas of artificial night sky brightness · Aurorasaurus verified positive reports
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