Night sky tonight in Vancouver

The night of Monday 19 October to Tuesday 20 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 18:10, properly dark from 19:24, getting light from 06:30, sunrise 07:45 (local time).

The Moon is 66 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 00:59. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

The planets

Jupiter: visible from 02:54 to 06:24, at its highest at 06:24 in the south-east, 43° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 19:24 to 04:54, at its highest at 23:54 in the south, 42° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 01:54 to 06:24, at its highest at 06:24 in the south-east, 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, 06:03 to 06:07, from the south-west to the east, up to 77°
ISS: Wednesday 21 October, 05:17 to 05:20, from the east to the east, up to 41°
ISS: Thursday 22 October, 06:05 to 06:09, from the west to the east, up to 68°

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 Vancouver