{"id":292466,"date":"2026-02-15T11:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/292466\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:27:15","slug":"when-and-where-to-see-the-northern-lights-in-the-uk-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/292466\/","title":{"rendered":"When and where to see the Northern Lights in the UK in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland has internationally recognised dark sky sites, which are largely protected from light pollution and recommended for stargazing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heymans, who lives in Edinburgh, suggests these are some of the best places to see the Northern Lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Galloway Forest Park, the Isle of Rum, Moffat, Tomintoul and Glenlivet in the Cairngorms, North Ronaldsay, Coll and Shetland are all designated dark sky parks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Heymans says Portobello Beach near Edinburgh is also a good place for urban aurora spotting as there are few streetlights and it faces north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland has internationally recognised dark sky sites, which are largely protected from light pollution and recommended for stargazing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-292466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}