Night sky tonight in Portland, Oregon: Moon, planets and dark hours

Tonight at a glance

Sun and twilight

Sunset: 18:06
Civil twilight ends: 18:36
Nautical twilight ends: 19:11
Astronomical darkness: 19:45 – 06:03
Sunrise: 07:43

The Moon

98%

Waning Gibbous

Moonrise: 18:02
Moonset: 09:58 (+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.

Find real darkness. Even a short drive away from street lighting makes a big difference: the Milky Way needs a sky where you cannot read by the glow on the horizon. Look for a site with an open view low down in the direction you are interested in.

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 01:25 in the east-northeast, best near 07:09, 60° up in the south-southeast.

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

Jupiter

Morning: rises around 02:04 in the east-northeast, best near 07:09, 54° up in the southeast.

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

Saturn

Evening: from 18:40 low in the east-southeast, sets around 05:00 in the west.

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

Uranus binoculars

Morning: rises around 21:04 in the east-northeast, best near 03:00, 65° up in the south.

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

Neptune binoculars

Evening: from 19:30 low in the east-southeast until 03:24.

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	05:23 NE	24° NE	05:25 ENE	2.0 min
Tue 27 Oct	06:56 NW	55° NNE	07:03 ESE	6.5 min
Wed 28 Oct	06:11 NNW	41° NNE	06:15 E	4.3 min
Thu 29 Oct	05:25 NE	27° NE	05:28 E	2.1 min
Thu 29 Oct	06:58 WNW	69° SSW	07:05 SE	6.4 min
Fri 30 Oct	06:13 NW	78° NE	06:17 ESE	4.4 min
Sat 31 Oct	05:28 E	32° E	05:30 ESE	2.1 min
Sat 31 Oct	07:00 W	27° SW	07:06 SSE	5.4 min
Sun 1 Nov	05:15 SW	43° SSW	05:19 SE	3.5 min
Mon 2 Nov	04:30 SE	22° SE	04:31 SE	1.4 min
Mon 2 Nov	06:03 WSW	11° SW	06:05 SSW	1.9 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	18:04	19:44–06:05	94%	↑18:40 ↓11:18	—	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Wed 28 Oct	18:03	19:43–06:06	87%	↑19:29	—	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Thu 29 Oct	18:01	19:41–06:07	78%	↑20:33 ↓12:28	55 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Fri 30 Oct	18:00	19:40–06:08	68%	↑21:47 ↓13:24	2 h 10 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sat 31 Oct	17:58	19:39–05:10	56%	↑23:07 ↓14:07	3 h 30 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sun 1 Nov	16:57	18:37–05:11	45%	↑23:26 ↓13:39	4 h 50 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Mon 2 Nov	16:55	18:36–05:12	34%	↑00:43 ↓14:04	6 h 10 min	Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Moon calendar for October 2026 in Portland, Oregon

1 Thu 70% ↑21:36 ↓13:33

2 Fri 59% ↑22:42 ↓14:37

3 Sat 47% ↑23:57 ↓15:28

4 Sun 36% ↓16:06

5 Mon 26% ↑01:17 ↓16:36

6 Tue 17% ↑02:36 ↓16:59

7 Wed 9% ↑03:53 ↓17:20

8 Thu 4% ↑05:07 ↓17:38

9 Fri 1% ↑06:19 ↓17:56

10 Sat 0% ↑07:31 ↓18:15

11 Sun 2% ↑08:42 ↓18:37

12 Mon 5% ↑09:53 ↓19:02

13 Tue 10% ↑11:03 ↓19:34

14 Wed 17% ↑12:08 ↓20:13

15 Thu 24% ↑13:06 ↓21:00

16 Fri 33% ↑13:55 ↓21:56

17 Sat 42% ↑14:35 ↓22:59

18 Sun 51% ↑15:07

19 Mon 61% ↑15:33 ↓00:05

20 Tue 70% ↑15:55 ↓01:13

21 Wed 79% ↑16:14 ↓02:22

22 Thu 87% ↑16:32 ↓03:32

23 Fri 93% ↑16:51 ↓04:43

24 Sat 97% ↑17:10 ↓05:56

25 Sun 100% ↑17:34 ↓07:14

26 Mon 99% ↑18:02 ↓08:35

27 Tue 96% ↑18:40 ↓09:58

28 Wed 91% ↑19:29 ↓11:18

29 Thu 83% ↑20:33 ↓12:28

30 Fri 73% ↑21:47 ↓13:24

31 Sat 62% ↑23:07 ↓14:07

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

Planets this month from Portland, Oregon

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 01:50	Morning, from 01:34	Morning, from 01:15
Jupiter	Morning, from 03:24	Morning, from 02:39	Morning, from 01:50
Saturn	19:34–06:40	Evening, sets 05:49	Evening, sets 03:40

Coming meteor showers

Southern Taurids

Peak Thursday 5 November 2026, 10:54 local

Best on the night of Wed 4 Nov around 00:30, when the radiant is 59° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 6 meteors an hour.

Moon 12% at peak

Northern Taurids

Peak Thursday 12 November 2026, 10:08 local

Best on the night of Wed 11 Nov around 00:30, when the radiant is 66° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 5 meteors an hour.

Moon 11% at peak

Leonids

Peak Tuesday 17 November 2026, 15:43 local

Best on the night of Tue 17 Nov around 06:00, when the radiant is 66° 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 Portland, Oregon

Penumbral lunar eclipse, 17 August 2027: the Moon is 30° up at greatest eclipse.
Partial lunar eclipse, 12 January 2028: the Moon is 35° up at greatest eclipse.
Partial solar eclipse, 14 January 2029: partial, 0.76 of the Sun's diameter covered (68% of its area), maximum around 16:34 UTC, Sun 6° up.

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Tonight's sky over Portland, Oregon