See the ISS from Athens, Greece

The International Space Station is visible from Athens 9 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Thu 12 Nov at 18:48 (very bright, 58° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Tue 3 Nov 06:00–06:05	Bright mag -2.6	Appears W, 17° up Highest 27° up in the SW Disappears SSE, 10° up
Wed 4 Nov 05:15–05:17	Very bright mag -3.0	Appears S, 43° up Highest 43° up in the S Disappears SSE, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 04:30–04:30	Faint mag -0.7	Appears SE, 12° up Highest 12° up in the SE Disappears SE, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov 18:44–18:44	Fairly bright mag -1.1	Appears SSE, 10° up Highest 10° up in the SSE Disappears SSE, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov 19:31–19:32	Fairly bright mag -1.1	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 17° up in the SW Disappears SW, 17° up
Tue 10 Nov 18:44–18:47	Very bright mag -3.2	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 41° up in the SE Disappears SE, 41° up
Wed 11 Nov 17:57–18:01	Bright mag -2.4	Appears S, 10° up Highest 23° up in the SE Disappears E, 13° up
Wed 11 Nov 19:33–19:34	Fairly bright mag -1.4	Appears W, 10° up Highest 22° up in the W Disappears W, 22° up
Thu 12 Nov 18:45–18:49	Very bright mag -3.4	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 58° up in the NW Disappears NNE, 44° up

Times are local to Athens (Europe/Athens). Directions are compass points; 90° up is straight overhead. Lower magnitude means brighter.

Also for Athens: dark-sky calendar, the moonless hours each night.

How to spot it

Be outside a few minutes early, facing where it appears. The ISS looks like a bright, steady star moving across the sky. It doesn’t blink, and it crosses in a few minutes. It often vanishes before reaching the horizon as it passes into Earth’s shadow.

Updated 3 November 2026 at 04:00 UTC, from ISS orbit elements 0.4 days old. The station sometimes fires its engines to raise its orbit, which shifts times by a few seconds or more, so check again on the day. How these predictions are made.