Night sky tonight in Mumbai

The night of Monday 19 October to Tuesday 20 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 18:10, properly dark from 19:01, getting light from 05:45, sunrise 06:36 (local time).

The Moon is 61 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 01:01. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

The planets

Jupiter: visible from 02:51 to 05:41, at its highest at 05:41 in the east, 51° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 19:01 to 04:41, at its highest at 23:31 in the south, 72° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 02:11 to 05:41, at its highest at 05:41 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: Monday 19 October, 19:53 to 19:54, from the west to the west, up to 26°
Hubble: Tuesday 20 October, 04:43 to 04:45, from the south-east to the south-east, up to 35°
Hubble: Wednesday 21 October, 19:14 to 19:16, from the south to the south-east, up to 16°
Tiangong: Wednesday 21 October, 19:31 to 19:34, from the west to the north, up to 16°
Hubble: Thursday 22 October, 05:15 to 05:17, from the south to the south, up to 16°

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 Mumbai