See the ISS from Cape Town, South Africa

The ISS isn’t visible from Cape Town in the next 10 days. The next visible pass is on Sun 15 Nov at 04:45. 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 Cape Town: 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 South Africa

Johannesburg · Durban · Pretoria · Soweto · Gqeberha · Soshanguve · Pietermaritzburg

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.