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Northern Lights in Duluth — Tonight
The tonight check for Duluth, United States: the live Kp, tonight's darkness window, and 14 public cameras within 50 km. Free, no signup.
Duluth watches the aurora the way the northern US does: over a huge dark lake, on the nights the oval makes its rare excursions south. Its wall is the Minnesota–Wisconsin bridge-and-highway network within 50 km — the Blatnik and Bong bridge approaches and the I-35 corridor above the harbour.
Most nights this is a Lake Superior weather wall, and the page doesn't pretend otherwise. But the cameras face the right water: when a G1-or-stronger storm pushes the display over the lake, the northern horizon from these feeds is the darkest in the Midwest.
LIVE GEOMAGNETIC INDEX (NOAA SWPC)
Reading the live Kp index…
Late-October outlook: NOAA's outlooks for the final week of October 2026 have flagged possible G1 (minor) storm periods, including a window around October 31. Treat that as an outlook, never a promise — geomagnetic forecasts only firm up one to three days ahead, coronal holes and CMEs permitting, and the live Kp above is the verdict on any given night.
Tonight in Duluth: darkness and the Kp it needs
Duluth is a storm-level sky: at 47°N it usually needs Kp 5–6 (a G1–G2 geomagnetic storm) before the oval reaches Lake Superior. Those nights are uncommon — and they are the nights this page exists for.
Sun times are computed for Duluth's coordinates (46.79, -92.10) in its local timezone — astronomy, not a forecast. The Kp panel above is the live NOAA reading; for tonight's verdict, read the two together and check the sky itself on the cameras.
Best time to watch in Duluth
Duluth is an alerts game, not a nightly routine: watch for Kp 5+ forecasts, then check the lake-facing cameras after full dark. The lake horizon is the stage — a display that would drown in a city's glow stands clear over Superior.
All 14 Duluth cameras, live
Every catalogue camera within 50 km of Duluth, nearest first — the wall this page's count comes from. Pick feeds facing dark landscapes, confirm the timestamp is current, and give the sky a minute.
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Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Featured cameras around Duluth
How to run the Duluth aurora check
- 1Read the live Kp at the top of this page first, and hold it against the band this place needs (above) — below it, even perfect cameras mostly show darkness.
- 2Check tonight's darkness window: the display needs real dark, and the window's edges are twilight, not watching time.
- 3Check the weather panel and the frames themselves for cloud — no Kp sees through overcast.
- 4Open the darkest-facing feeds, confirm the timestamp is current, and give the sky a minute; recheck in five.
- 5If Duluth is clouded out, switch walls — cloud is local, the oval is not. The nearest other places in this set are linked below.
Duluth northern lights — FAQ
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