Night sky tonight in Nairobi

The night of Monday 19 October to Tuesday 20 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 18:19, properly dark from 19:08, getting light from 05:26, sunrise 06:15 (local time).

The Moon is 62 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 01:31. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

Clouds tonight

Mostly cloudy, on average 70% 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 03:08 to 05:18, at its highest at 05:18 in the east, 42° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 19:08 to 04:38, at its highest at 23:18 in the north, 87° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 02:28 to 05:18, at its highest at 05:18 in the north-east, 50° up. Magnitude 1.0.

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

ISS and space stations

Hubble: Monday 19 October, 19:16 to 19:21, from the south-west to the north-east, up to 67°
Tiangong: Tuesday 20 October, 04:45 to 04:47, from the north-east to the east, up to 17°
Tiangong: Wednesday 21 October, 05:21 to 05:25, from the west to the south-east, up to 54°

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 Nairobi