Night sky tonight
Is it worth going outside tonight, and when? Enter your city or ZIP code for a score out of 10, the darkest hours, the Moon, the planets you can see, meteor showers, northern lights chances, ISS passes and the cloud forecast.
Tonight from the middle of the US
Working out tonight's sky for the middle of the US…
Coming up in the night sky
Dates and times in Eastern Time; each page gives local times for your city.
- Saturn at opposition
- Draconids peak
- Mercury at greatest evening elongation · 25° from the Sun
- Orionids peak
- Full Moon: Hunter's Moon · 12:12 AM ET
- Southern Taurids peak
- Northern Taurids peak
- Leonids peak
- Mercury at greatest morning elongation · 20° from the Sun
- Full Moon: Beaver Moon (supermoon) · 9:54 AM ET
- Uranus at opposition
- Geminids peak
- December solstice
- Ursids peak
- Full Moon: Cold Moon (supermoon) · 8:28 PM ET
- Venus at greatest morning elongation · 47° from the Sun
- Quadrantids peak
- Full Moon: Wolf Moon (supermoon) · 7:17 AM ET
- Mercury at greatest evening elongation · 18° from the Sun
- Jupiter at opposition
- Mars at opposition
- Full Moon: Snow Moon · 6:24 PM ET
- Mercury at greatest morning elongation · 28° from the Sun
- March equinox
- Full Moon: Worm Moon · 6:44 AM ET
- Full Moon: Pink Moon · 6:27 PM ET
- Lyrids peak
- Eta Aquariids peak
- Full Moon: Flower Moon · 6:59 AM ET
- Mercury at greatest evening elongation · 23° from the Sun
- Full Moon: Strawberry Moon · 8:45 PM ET
- June solstice
- Mercury at greatest morning elongation · 21° from the Sun
- Full Moon: Buck Moon · 11:45 AM ET
- Southern Delta Aquariids peak
- Alpha Capricornids peak
- Perseids peak
- Full Moon: Sturgeon Moon · 3:29 AM ET
- Full Moon: Harvest Moon · 7:04 PM ET
- September equinox
- Mercury at greatest evening elongation · 26° from the Sun
- Neptune at opposition
- Draconids peak
- Full Moon: Hunter's Moon · 9:47 AM ET
- Saturn at opposition
- Orionids peak
- Mercury at greatest morning elongation · 19° from the Sun
- Southern Taurids peak
- Northern Taurids peak
- Full Moon: Beaver Moon · 10:26 PM ET
- Leonids peak
- Uranus at opposition
- Full Moon: Cold Moon · 11:09 AM ET
- Geminids peak
- December solstice
- Ursids peak
Tonight's sky by state
- Alabama 9 cities
- Alaska 3 cities
- Arizona 14 cities
- Arkansas 6 cities
- California 50 cities
- Colorado 8 cities
- Connecticut 5 cities
- Delaware 2 cities
- District of Columbia 1 city
- Florida 25 cities
- Georgia 10 cities
- Hawaii 4 cities
- Idaho 7 cities
- Illinois 12 cities
- Indiana 12 cities
- Iowa 11 cities
- Kansas 9 cities
- Kentucky 7 cities
- Louisiana 8 cities
- Maine 3 cities
- Maryland 5 cities
- Massachusetts 7 cities
- Michigan 10 cities
- Minnesota 7 cities
- Mississippi 7 cities
- Missouri 11 cities
- Montana 7 cities
- Nebraska 5 cities
- Nevada 5 cities
- New Hampshire 1 city
- New Jersey 3 cities
- New Mexico 9 cities
- New York 9 cities
- North Carolina 14 cities
- North Dakota 6 cities
- Ohio 13 cities
- Oklahoma 5 cities
- Oregon 8 cities
- Pennsylvania 10 cities
- Rhode Island 1 city
- South Carolina 6 cities
- South Dakota 5 cities
- Tennessee 12 cities
- Texas 48 cities
- Utah 6 cities
- Vermont 2 cities
- Virginia 7 cities
- Washington 11 cities
- West Virginia 3 cities
- Wisconsin 10 cities
- Wyoming 5 cities
Guides to the night sky
- Meteor showers: what is active tonight, the next peaks and the best hours where you live.
- Moon phases and full moon names, with a calendar for every month from 2016 to 2036.
- Planets visible tonight, and when each planet is best placed this year.
- Northern lights forecast turned into a plain answer for every state.
- Eclipses visible from the US to 2035, with local times.
- ISS passes over your location in the coming days.
- Dark-sky places certified for stargazing, state by state.
- Beginner guides: watching meteors, photographing the sky, binoculars or a telescope.
How the score works: how we calculate.