Night sky tonight in Tokyo

The night of Tuesday 20 October to Wednesday 21 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 16:57, properly dark from 17:56, getting light from 04:55, sunrise 05:55 (local time).

The Moon is 68 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 00:20. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

Clouds tonight

Mostly cloudy, on average 92% 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 01:36 to 04:46, at its highest at 04:46 in the east, 49° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 17:56 to 03:36, at its highest at 22:26 in the south, 56° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 00:46 to 04:46, at its highest at 04:46 in the south-east, 58° up. Magnitude 1.0.

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

ISS and space stations

Tiangong: Wednesday 21 October, 18:26 to 18:27, from the south to the south, up to 20°

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

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 Tokyo