Night sky tonight in Dubai

The night of Monday 19 October to Tuesday 20 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 17:45, properly dark from 18:39, getting light from 05:28, sunrise 06:21 (local time).

The Moon is 61 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 00:33. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

Clouds tonight

Mostly clear, on average 0% cloud cover during the dark hours.

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

The planets

Jupiter: visible from 02:29 to 05:19, at its highest at 05:19 in the east, 50° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 18:39 to 04:19, at its highest at 23:09 in the south, 66° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 01:39 to 05:19, at its highest at 05:19 in the east, 60° up. Magnitude 1.0.

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

ISS and space stations

Hubble: Tuesday 20 October, 04:47 to 04:48, from the south to the south-east, up to 19°
Tiangong: Tuesday 20 October, 18:57 to 19:00, from the south-west to the south-east, up to 70°
Tiangong: Wednesday 21 October, 19:35 to 19:36, from the west to the north-west, up to 19°

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 Dubai