See the ISS from Bucharest, Romania

The International Space Station is visible from Bucharest 6 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Thu 12 Nov at 18:49 (very bright, 48° up).

WhenBrightnessWhere to look
Tue 3 Nov
06:00–06:02
Fairly bright
mag -1.5
Appears WSW, 10° up
Highest 11° up in the SW
Disappears SSW, 10° up
Wed 4 Nov
05:15–05:16
Fairly bright
mag -1.4
Appears SSW, 14° up
Highest 14° up in the SSW
Disappears S, 10° up
Tue 10 Nov
18:46–18:47
Fairly bright
mag -1.5
Appears S, 10° up
Highest 16° up in the S
Disappears S, 16° up
Wed 11 Nov
17:59–18:01
Fairly bright
mag -1.7
Appears SSE, 10° up
Highest 14° up in the SE
Disappears ESE, 14° up
Wed 11 Nov
19:34–19:34
Faint
mag -0.7
Appears WSW, 10° up
Highest 13° up in the WSW
Disappears WSW, 13° up
Thu 12 Nov
18:46–18:49
Very bright
mag -3.0
Appears SW, 10° up
Highest 48° up in the SSW
Disappears SSW, 48° up

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

Also for Bucharest: 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.