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

Tonight at a glance

Sun and twilight

Sunset: 18:01
Civil twilight ends: 18:32
Nautical twilight ends: 19:08
Astronomical darkness: 19:44 – 06:02
Sunrise: 07:46

The Moon

98%

Waning Gibbous

Moonrise: 17:53
Moonset: 10:06 (+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.

Binoculars first. Ordinary 7x50 or 10x50 binoculars show Jupiter's four largest moons, the Moon's craters, the Pleiades and countless clusters. They are easier to start with than a telescope and need no setting up.

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 01:19 in the east-northeast, best near 07:09, 58° up in the south-southeast.

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

Jupiter

Morning: rises around 02:00 in the east-northeast, best near 07:09, 53° up in the south-southeast.

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

Saturn

Evening: from 18:34 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 21:00 in the east-northeast, best near 03:00, 63° 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 03:20.

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	30° NE	05:26 ENE	2.2 min
Tue 27 Oct	06:56 WNW	81° ENE	07:03 ESE	6.5 min
Wed 28 Oct	04:38 ENE	10° ENE	04:38 ENE	0.0 min
Wed 28 Oct	06:11 NW	62° NNE	06:15 E	4.3 min
Thu 29 Oct	05:25 ENE	34° ENE	05:28 E	2.2 min
Thu 29 Oct	06:58 WNW	47° SSW	07:04 SE	6.1 min
Fri 30 Oct	04:40 E	10° E	04:40 E	0.0 min
Fri 30 Oct	06:13 W	70° SSW	06:17 SE	4.2 min
Sat 31 Oct	05:28 ESE	31° ESE	05:29 ESE	1.9 min
Sat 31 Oct	07:01 W	21° SW	07:05 S	4.7 min
Sun 1 Nov	05:15 SW	31° SW	05:18 SSE	3.0 min
Mon 2 Nov	04:30 SE	18° SE	04:31 SE	1.0 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	17:59	19:43–06:03	94%	↑18:29 ↓11:27	—	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Wed 28 Oct	17:57	19:41–06:05	87%	↑19:17	—	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Thu 29 Oct	17:56	19:40–06:06	78%	↑20:20 ↓12:38	40 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Fri 30 Oct	17:54	19:38–06:07	68%	↑21:35 ↓13:34	2 h 00 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sat 31 Oct	17:52	19:37–05:09	56%	↑22:57 ↓14:14	3 h 20 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sun 1 Nov	16:51	18:35–05:10	45%	↑23:19 ↓13:44	4 h 45 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Mon 2 Nov	16:49	18:34–05:11	34%	↑00:37 ↓14:07	6 h 10 min	Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Moon calendar for October 2026 in Seattle

1 Thu 70% ↑21:23 ↓13:43

2 Fri 59% ↑22:29 ↓14:47

3 Sat 47% ↑23:46 ↓15:37

4 Sun 36% ↓16:13

5 Mon 26% ↑01:08 ↓16:40

6 Tue 17% ↑02:29 ↓17:02

7 Wed 9% ↑03:48 ↓17:20

8 Thu 4% ↑05:05 ↓17:36

9 Fri 1% ↑06:19 ↓17:53

10 Sat 0% ↑07:33 ↓18:10

11 Sun 2% ↑08:47 ↓18:29

12 Mon 5% ↑10:00 ↓18:53

13 Tue 10% ↑11:11 ↓19:22

14 Wed 17% ↑12:17 ↓20:00

15 Thu 24% ↑13:16 ↓20:47

16 Fri 33% ↑14:05 ↓21:44

17 Sat 42% ↑14:44 ↓22:47

18 Sun 51% ↑15:14 ↓23:55

19 Mon 61% ↑15:39

20 Tue 70% ↑15:58 ↓01:05

21 Wed 79% ↑16:16 ↓02:16

22 Thu 87% ↑16:32 ↓03:28

23 Fri 93% ↑16:48 ↓04:41

24 Sat 97% ↑17:06 ↓05:57

25 Sun 100% ↑17:27 ↓07:17

26 Mon 99% ↑17:53 ↓08:40

27 Tue 96% ↑18:29 ↓10:06

28 Wed 91% ↑19:17 ↓11:27

29 Thu 83% ↑20:20 ↓12:38

30 Fri 73% ↑21:35 ↓13:34

31 Sat 62% ↑22:57 ↓14:14

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

Planets this month from Seattle

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 01:44	Morning, from 01:30	Morning, from 01:09
Jupiter	Morning, from 03:20	Morning, from 02:35	Morning, from 01:44
Saturn	19:34–06:34	Evening, sets 05:45	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 57° 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 64° 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 64° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 13 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 Seattle

Penumbral lunar eclipse, 17 August 2027: the Moon is 28° 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, 0.78 of the Sun's diameter covered (71% of its area), maximum around 16:38 UTC, Sun 5° up.

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Tonight's sky over Seattle