See the ISS from Belo Horizonte, Brazil

The International Space Station is visible from Belo Horizonte 2 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Wed 11 Nov at 04:22 (fairly bright, 20° up).

WhenBrightnessWhere to look
Tue 3 Nov
18:56–18:58
Faint
mag -0.6
Appears WNW, 10° up
Highest 10° up in the WNW
Disappears NW, 10° up
Wed 11 Nov
04:20–04:25
Fairly bright
mag -1.4
Appears N, 10° up
Highest 20° up in the NE
Disappears ESE, 10° up

Times are local to Belo Horizonte (America/Sao Paulo). Directions are compass points; 90° up is straight overhead. Lower magnitude means brighter.

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

Coming up in the sky over Belo Horizonte

Mars and Jupiter conjunction
Mon 16 Nov, 04:08: 1.2° apart, 45° up in the north-east
Leonid meteor shower
Night of 16–17 Nov: 02:29–03:45, up to about 8 an hour
Night of 17–18 Nov: 02:25–03:44, up to about 8 an hour
Geminid meteor shower
Night of 13–14 Dec: 22:42–03:43, up to about 90 an hour
Night of 14–15 Dec: 22:38–03:43, up to about 90 an hour

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.

Other cities in Brazil

Updated 3 November 2026 at 07:00 UTC, from ISS orbit elements 0.5 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.