Finnish Lapland · Northern Lights
Aurora: 42 in December.93 in March.
Finnish Lapland’s aurora window is February–March, then October. December, the darkest month of the year, scores 42.
The northern lights score 92 in February and 93 in March, then 88 in October. In December, the darkest month of the year, they score 42.
Darkness is not the whole story. Visit Finland puts the most aurora activity in September–October and February–March: around the equinoxes, the alignment between the Earth and the sun makes geomagnetic disturbances more frequent. It also lists December as the most popular time to travel.
December if the aurora is the actual point.From the Finnish Lapland record · when not to come
No crowd figures are shown for Finnish Lapland: its crowd curve is held back on this site until there is a counted source. The equinox explanation and the December note are Visit Finland’s, from its northern lights guide.
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