See the ISS from Bouake, Ivory Coast

The International Space Station is visible from Bouake 11 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Thu 5 Nov at 18:58 (very bright, 78° up).

WhenBrightnessWhere to look
Tue 3 Nov
18:54–18:56
Fairly bright
mag -1.6
Appears SSE, 10° up
Highest 14° up in the SE
Disappears SE, 14° up
Wed 4 Nov
19:42–19:44
Fairly bright
mag -1.7
Appears SW, 10° up
Highest 27° up in the WSW
Disappears WSW, 27° up
Thu 5 Nov
05:39–05:44
Fairly bright
mag -1.3
Appears N, 10° up
Highest 19° up in the NE
Disappears E, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov
18:54–18:59
Very bright
mag -3.9
Appears SSW, 10° up
Highest 78° up in the SE
Disappears NE, 31° up
Sat 7 Nov
05:39–05:46
Very bright
mag -3.8
Appears NW, 10° up
Highest 76° up in the SW
Disappears SSE, 10° up
Sat 7 Nov
18:57–19:01
Fairly bright
mag -1.3
Appears W, 10° up
Highest 18° up in the NW
Disappears N, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov
04:54–04:58
Bright
mag -2.7
Appears N, 27° up
Highest 42° up in the NE
Disappears SE, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov
04:09–04:10
Faint
mag -0.8
Appears E, 15° up
Highest 15° up in the E
Disappears E, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov
05:42–05:46
Fairly bright
mag -1.8
Appears W, 10° up
Highest 14° up in the SW
Disappears SSW, 10° up
Tue 10 Nov
04:57–05:00
Bright
mag -2.6
Appears SW, 29° up
Highest 29° up in the SW
Disappears S, 10° up
Wed 11 Nov
04:12–04:12
Faint
mag -0.7
Appears SSE, 12° up
Highest 12° up in the SSE
Disappears SSE, 10° up

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

Also for Bouake: 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.

Other cities in Ivory Coast

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.