See the ISS from Auckland, New Zealand

The ISS isn’t visible from Auckland in the next 10 days. The next visible pass is on Tue 17 Nov at 04:55. It can only be seen when it’s sunlit while your sky is dark, so it comes in spells, with gaps of a few days to about three weeks between them.

Also for Auckland: 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.