Night sky tonight in Cairo

The night of Monday 19 October to Tuesday 20 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 18:17, properly dark from 19:13, getting light from 06:06, sunrise 07:02 (local time).

The Moon is 62 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 01:04. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

The planets

Jupiter: visible from 03:03 to 06:03, highest at 06:03 in the east, 50° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 19:13 to 04:53, highest at 23:43 in the south, 61° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 02:13 to 06:03, highest at 06:03 in the east, 61° up. Magnitude 1.0.

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

ISS and space stations

Tiangong: Tuesday 20 October, 19:30 to 19:33, from the southwest to the southeast, up to 28°
Tiangong: Wednesday 21 October, 20:07 to 20:08, from the west to the west, up to 25°

Visible passes this night and the next two: the station lit by the Sun, the sky 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 Cairo