Night sky tonight in Amsterdam

The night of Monday 19 October to Tuesday 20 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 18:33, properly dark from 19:53, getting light from 06:58, sunrise 08:18 (local time).

The Moon is 63 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 00:49. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

Clouds tonight

Partly cloudy, on average 34% cloud cover during the dark hours. Clearest around 04:00.

Forecast from MET Norway (api.met.no, CC BY 4.0), as of this morning; clouds change quickly.

The planets

Jupiter: visible from 03:23 to 06:53, at its highest at 06:53 in the south-east, 41° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 19:53 to 05:23, at its highest at 00:33 in the south, 39° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 02:23 to 06:53, at its highest at 06:53 in the south-east, 49° up. Magnitude 1.0.

Not visible: Mercury, Venus (too close to the Sun or not up in the dark).

ISS and space stations

ISS: Tuesday 20 October, 05:45 to 05:47, from the south-east to the east, up to 22°
ISS: Wednesday 21 October, 06:33 to 06:37, from the south-west to the east, up to 51°
ISS: Thursday 22 October, 05:47 to 05:50, from the south-east to the east, up to 35°

Visible passes tonight and on the next two nights, when the station is lit by the Sun and the sky is dark. It glides across the sky as a bright, steady point, without blinking.

High in the sky at 10 pm

This week in the sky

Comet 161P/Hartley-IRAS at its brightest: About magnitude 9.7: at the limit of binoculars, better in a telescope
Orionids: peak: Up to 20 meteors an hour under an ideally dark sky. The Moon is 78 per cent lit then and drowns the fainter ones.

All sky events

Live star map for Amsterdam