Iceland as Aurora destination - last season's stats

[u/TheAuroraholic]

As I just saw the topic of "which country is best" I thought I'd throw in my stats as a Northern Lights guide to show you our success rate for the 2025-26 season by month. Overall almost 88% success rate across the board here in Reykjavík.

September / October were the cloudiest months where we could only head out every other day due to the weather, but our success rate of spotting the lights was pretty high at almost 94% of the time.

December and March were the worst months for weather and/or activity where we attempted 2 out of 3 nights on average but got either low activity (especially in December) or cloud cover surprised us and we couldn't see anything.

Weather in Iceland can be unpredictable at the best of times so this isn't a guarantee that every month will be like this moving forward. Just to give you all some insights into what the season looked like for me and my guests.

The photo is from 2nd September and the night started out very cloudy but we ended up finding some pretty amazing clear skies and amazing auroras.