Tonight

What's visible tonight

The same sky looks different from every latitude. These are the planets above the horizon tonight, when each is highest, and how high it gets — for your own location, or for any of 86 cities in its own local time.

Latitude decides how high anything climbs, and longitude decides when. From the equator the planets pass almost overhead; from Reykjavík the same objects skim the southern horizon and the sky never fully darkens in summer. Pick the place nearest you — or use the button above for your exact position.

Belgium and the Netherlands

British Isles

Continental Europe

North America

Rest of the world

Somewhere else

Eighty places is not everywhere. Pick the nearest one: within a few hundred kilometres the times shift by minutes and the altitudes barely move, which is well inside the accuracy anyone needs to decide whether to go outside. Times drift by roughly four minutes per degree of longitude, and altitudes by one degree per degree of latitude.

Computed from VSOP87 and an ELP-derived lunar theory, accurate to within one arcminute, and rebuilt every hour. See the whole system at once in the live simulation.