See the ISS from Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

The International Space Station is visible from Bobo-Dioulasso 13 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Thu 5 Nov at 18:58 (very bright, 58° up).

WhenBrightnessWhere to look
Wed 4 Nov
19:43–19:44
Fairly bright
mag -1.2
Appears SW, 10° up
Highest 19° up in the SW
Disappears SW, 19° up
Thu 5 Nov
05:38–05:44
Bright
mag -2.0
Appears N, 10° up
Highest 30° up in the NE
Disappears ESE, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov
18:55–18:59
Very bright
mag -3.8
Appears SSW, 10° up
Highest 58° up in the SE
Disappears E, 48° up
Fri 6 Nov
04:51–04:55
Fairly bright
mag -1.0
Appears NNE, 10° up
Highest 15° up in the NE
Disappears E, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov
18:13–18:14
Bright
mag -2.3
Appears E, 16° up
Highest 16° up in the E
Disappears ENE, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov
19:46–19:47
Faint
mag -0.6
Appears WNW, 10° up
Highest 11° up in the WNW
Disappears WNW, 11° up
Sat 7 Nov
05:39–05:45
Very bright
mag -3.3
Appears NW, 10° up
Highest 45° up in the SW
Disappears SSE, 10° up
Sat 7 Nov
18:57–19:02
Fairly bright
mag -1.7
Appears WSW, 10° up
Highest 24° up in the NW
Disappears N, 12° up
Sun 8 Nov
04:54–04:58
Very bright
mag -3.6
Appears NNW, 49° up
Highest 71° up in the NE
Disappears SE, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov
18:12–18:16
Very bright
mag -3.1
Appears NW, 55° up
Highest 55° up in the NW
Disappears NNE, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov
04:09–04:10
Faint
mag -0.9
Appears ESE, 17° up
Highest 17° up in the ESE
Disappears ESE, 10° up
Tue 10 Nov
04:57–04:59
Fairly bright
mag -1.7
Appears SSW, 17° up
Highest 17° up in the SSW
Disappears S, 10° up
Tue 10 Nov
18:13–18:15
Faint
mag -0.8
Appears WNW, 10° up
Highest 12° up in the NW
Disappears NNW, 10° up

Times are local to Bobo-Dioulasso (Africa/Ouagadougou). Directions are compass points; 90° up is straight overhead. Lower magnitude means brighter.

Also for Bobo-Dioulasso: 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.

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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.