Aurora forecast / May
Northern lights in Iceland in May
No. The sky does not get dark enough.
By May the sun barely dips below the horizon and the sky never gets properly dark anywhere in Iceland. Solar activity is irrelevant — even a severe geomagnetic storm is invisible against a twilit sky. Any service showing you an aurora percentage for Iceland in May is not accounting for darkness.
How dark does it get in May?
- Reykjavík: never dark enough
- Akureyri: never dark enough
Measured on the 15th of the month — the hours the sun sits far enough below the horizon for aurora to be visible.
Roads and access in May
Roads improving quickly; highland routes usually still closed until mid-June.
What else is happening
Come for near-endless daylight, puffins, and highland roads beginning to open at the end of the month.
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