Northern Lights in Alberta

Your best chances are around Edmonton and further north. At dark spots like Elk Island National Park the aurora shows on quite a few clear nights each season, usually low in the north and overhead in strong storms. Jasper's dark-sky preserve, at about the same latitude, gets regular displays. Calgary and Banff, further south, see it less often, when activity is higher.

Come between late August and mid-April. September–October and March tend to be the most active; in June and July the nights are short and only briefly dark.