Northern Lights 2024 California. Lucky for us the next few years are going to be the best for seeing the northern lights due to heightened solar activity as are in the solar maximum phase of the current solar cycle. Northern lights or aurora borealis illuminate the night sky north of san.

Northern lights, or aurora borealis, illuminate the sky as photographed from china camp beach in san rafael, calif., on may 11, 2024. The northern lights were visible from the bay area thursday, giving skywatchers and amateur photographers a celestial show that’s typically visible only in sparsely populated places like alaska and greenland.