Night sky tonight in Paris

The night of Monday 19 October to Tuesday 20 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 18:49, properly dark from 20:03, getting light from 07:08, sunrise 08:22 (local time).

The Moon is 63 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 01:14. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

The planets

Jupiter: visible from 03:33 to 07:03, highest at 07:03 in the southeast, 44° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 20:03 to 05:33, highest at 00:33 in the south, 43° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 02:43 to 07:03, highest at 07:03 in the southeast, 52° 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 east to the east, up to 26°
ISS: Wednesday 21 October, 06:33 to 06:37, from the southwest to the east, up to 88°
ISS: Thursday 22 October, 05:47 to 05:49, from the east to the east, up to 31°

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 Paris