Northern Lights in Scotland

Go between September and March, and head as far north as you can. In Shetland and Orkney the aurora shows several times in a typical winter. The north coast of the mainland, the Highlands around Inverness and Skye see it a little less often, and Edinburgh and Glasgow only in strong storms, a few nights a year. In Shetland there are no dark nights from mid-May to late July, the simmer dim. The aurora is usually low in the north, and on the coasts the cloud often decides.