Night sky tonight in Lisbon: Moon, planets and dark hours

Tonight at a glance

Sun and twilight

Sunset: 17:43
Civil twilight ends: 18:10
Nautical twilight ends: 18:41
Astronomical darkness: 19:12 – 05:28
Sunrise: 06:58

The Moon

99%

Waning Gibbous

Moonrise: 17:37
Moonset: 08:34 (+1)
Moon-free darkness: none

Times between local noon today and noon tomorrow; (+1) means after midnight.

Dark-sky tip

A bright Moon tonight. Its light hides the Milky Way and fainter meteors. Use it instead: binoculars on the line between light and dark show craters in sharp relief.

Look slightly away. Faint stars and smudges show up better when you look a little to one side of them. The edge of your vision is more sensitive to dim light than the centre; astronomers call it averted vision.

Tonight hour by hour

Day Civil twilight Nautical Astronomical Full dark · bars show when each body is above the horizon

Planets tonight

Mars

Morning: rises around 01:00 in the east-northeast, best near 06:30, 65° up in the southeast.

Magnitude +0.9 · in Cancer · 77° from the Sun

Jupiter

Morning: rises around 01:40 in the east-northeast, best near 06:30, 59° up in the southeast.

Magnitude −2.0 · in Leo · 69° from the Sun

Saturn

Evening: from 18:15 low in the east-southeast, sets around 04:30 in the west.

Magnitude +0.4 · in Cetus · 157° from the Sun

Uranus binoculars

Morning: rises around 20:40 in the east-northeast, best near 02:25, 72° up in the south.

Magnitude +5.6 · in Taurus · 148° from the Sun

Neptune binoculars

Evening: from 19:00 low in the east-southeast until 03:04.

Magnitude +7.7 · in Pisces · 150° from the Sun

"Visible" means at least 5° above the horizon (15° for Uranus and Neptune) while the Sun is more than 6° below it. Directions: N, NE, E… are compass points along the horizon.

Visible ISS passes this week

Date	Appears	Highest	Disappears	Visible for
Tue 27 Oct	06:13 NNW	15° NNE	06:17 ENE	4.2 min
Wed 28 Oct	05:26 N	12° NNE	05:29 NE	2.7 min
Thu 29 Oct	06:14 NNW	28° NNE	06:20 E	6.0 min
Fri 30 Oct	05:28 N	20° NNE	05:32 ENE	3.9 min
Sat 31 Oct	04:43 NE	14° NE	04:44 ENE	1.1 min
Sat 31 Oct	06:16 NW	73° NE	06:22 ESE	6.6 min
Sun 1 Nov	05:30 NNW	43° NE	05:35 ESE	4.3 min
Mon 2 Nov	04:45 ENE	21° ENE	04:47 E	1.7 min
Mon 2 Nov	06:18 WNW	34° SW	06:24 SSE	5.6 min

The International Space Station looks like a bright, steady star moving across the sky in a few minutes. Passes are computed from the latest orbital elements (epoch 2026-10-25); the station's orbit is adjusted from time to time, so a pass can shift by a minute or more. It may also fade suddenly when it enters Earth's shadow.

The next 7 nights

Night of	Sunset	Dark	Moon	Moonrise / set	Moon-free dark	Planets
Tue 27 Oct	17:42	19:11–05:29	95%	↑18:17 ↓09:51	—	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Wed 28 Oct	17:41	19:10–05:30	89%	↑19:07 ↓11:02	—	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Thu 29 Oct	17:39	19:09–05:31	81%	↑20:08	1 h 05 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Fri 30 Oct	17:38	19:08–05:32	71%	↑21:18 ↓12:04	2 h 15 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sat 31 Oct	17:37	19:07–05:33	60%	↑22:32 ↓12:55	3 h 25 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sun 1 Nov	17:36	19:06–05:34	48%	↑23:46 ↓13:35	4 h 40 min	Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Mon 2 Nov	17:35	19:05–05:35	37%	↑00:57 ↓14:08	5 h 50 min	Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Moon calendar for October 2026 in Lisbon

1 Thu 73% ↑22:14 ↓13:06

2 Fri 63% ↑23:17 ↓14:13

3 Sat 51% ↓15:10

4 Sun 40% ↑00:27 ↓15:57

5 Mon 29% ↑01:41 ↓16:34

6 Tue 20% ↑02:54 ↓17:05

7 Wed 12% ↑04:05 ↓17:32

8 Thu 5% ↑05:14 ↓17:57

9 Fri 2% ↑06:21 ↓18:20

10 Sat 0% ↑07:27 ↓18:45

11 Sun 1% ↑08:32 ↓19:11

12 Mon 4% ↑09:38 ↓19:40

13 Tue 8% ↑10:43 ↓20:14

14 Wed 14% ↑11:45 ↓20:55

15 Thu 22% ↑12:43 ↓21:41

16 Fri 30% ↑13:36 ↓22:34

17 Sat 39% ↑14:21 ↓23:32

18 Sun 48% ↑14:59

19 Mon 58% ↑15:31 ↓00:33

20 Tue 67% ↑15:59 ↓01:36

21 Wed 76% ↑16:25 ↓02:39

22 Thu 84% ↑16:48 ↓03:43

23 Fri 91% ↑17:12 ↓04:48

24 Sat 96% ↑17:37 ↓05:54

25 Sun 99% ↑17:05 ↓06:04

26 Mon 100% ↑17:37 ↓07:18

27 Tue 97% ↑18:17 ↓08:34

28 Wed 92% ↑19:07 ↓09:51

29 Thu 85% ↑20:08 ↓11:02

30 Fri 76% ↑21:18 ↓12:04

31 Sat 65% ↑22:32 ↓12:55

Illumination at local noon; ↑ moonrise, ↓ moonset, local time. Phase dates for the whole world: Moon phases October 2026.

Planets this month from Lisbon

Planet	Thu 1 Oct	Thu 15 Oct	Sat 31 Oct
Mercury	not visible	not visible	not visible
Venus	not visible	not visible	not visible
Mars	Morning, from 02:34	Morning, from 02:14	Morning, from 00:55
Jupiter	Morning, from 03:59	Morning, from 03:14	Morning, from 01:25
Saturn	20:04–07:04	Evening, sets 06:14	Evening, sets 04:10

Coming meteor showers

Southern Taurids

Peak Thursday 5 November 2026, 18:54 local

Best on the night of Thu 5 Nov around 01:00, when the radiant is 66° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 6 meteors an hour.

Moon 12% at peak

Northern Taurids

Peak Thursday 12 November 2026, 18:08 local

Best on the night of Thu 12 Nov around 01:00, when the radiant is 73° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 5 meteors an hour.

Moon 11% at peak

Leonids

Peak Tuesday 17 November 2026, 23:43 local

Best on the night of Tue 17 Nov around 06:00, when the radiant is 70° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 14 meteors an hour, fewer this year because the Moon is 55% lit.

Moon 55% at peak

Rate = the shower's zenithal hourly rate × the sine of the radiant's altitude. Real counts are lower from towns and with moonlight; treat this as an upper guide.

Eclipses seen from Lisbon

Penumbral lunar eclipse, 20 February 2027: the Moon is 53° up at greatest eclipse.
Total solar eclipse, 2 August 2027: partial, 0.93 of the Sun's diameter covered (93% of its area), maximum around 08:44 UTC, Sun 35° up.
Partial lunar eclipse, 12 January 2028: the Moon is 43° up at greatest eclipse.
Annular solar eclipse, 26 January 2028: partial, 0.89 of the Sun's diameter covered (81% of its area), maximum around 16:54 UTC, Sun 9° up.
Total lunar eclipse, 26 June 2029: the Moon is 16° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
Total lunar eclipse, 20 December 2029: the Moon is 61° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
Annular solar eclipse, 1 June 2030: partial, 0.68 of the Sun's diameter covered (59% of its area), maximum around 05:13 UTC, Sun -1° up.
Penumbral lunar eclipse, 9 December 2030: the Moon is 59° up at greatest eclipse.

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Tonight's sky over Lisbon