New Hampshire · ≈ 54.3° magnetic latitude · needs about Kp 6.0

Northern lights tonight in New Hampshire

New Hampshire sits at about 54° magnetic latitude, so the aurora reaches it from roughly Kp 6.0 — a few nights a year, on G2–G3 storms. The card below reads NOAA's oval, tonight's dark hours, the cloud and the Moon for First Connecticut Lake, Pittsburg right now.

New Hampshire's north tip at Pittsburg is 45° north and 55° magnetic, with the Connecticut Lakes giving open water toward Québec and no town for 60 km — the state's one genuinely dark aurora site, Kp 5.5 and up. The White Mountains are darker than their fame suggests but their northern horizons are peaks; the Auto Road base and the notches give gaps. Umbagog on the Maine line is the flat alternative. Concord and the seacoast need a G3 and see mostly red.

First Connecticut Lake, Pittsburg Use your own location instead →

The oval now, pole to 40°, New Hampshire's meridian at the bottom. Dashed: tonight's forecast Kp.

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First Connecticut Lake, Pittsburg

rows: dark · oval · clear · no Moon — the window is the run of green hours

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Where to go in New Hampshire

Three sites a photographer would drive to, each with its measured ground darkness from the light pollution atlas and its own verdict for tonight. Coordinates are approximate: a viewpoint, a shore, a car park.

Kp now and the three nights ahead

The Kp index, with New Hampshire's row marked → · Storm today? →

Camera settings for this aurora

From the oval's brightness right now and the exposure law.

Plan the sequence · stack the night when you are back · the photography guide →

Other places

Sources

Aurora grid, Kp, solar wind and alerts: NOAA SWPC, read live by your browser. Cloud: MET Norway (CC BY 4.0), which receives the site's coordinates rounded to two decimals. Ground darkness: this site's atlas. Magnetic latitude from the 2025 IGRF dipole; the Kp threshold from NOAA's viewing table.