{"id":469891,"date":"2026-02-15T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/469891\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:45:08","slug":"when-and-where-to-see-the-northern-lights-in-the-uk-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/469891\/","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":469892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-469891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}