See the ISS from Dammam, Saudi Arabia

The International Space Station is visible from Dammam 11 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Sun 8 Nov at 18:11 (very bright, 64° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Wed 4 Nov 04:42–04:47	Bright mag -2.8	Appears NNW, 18° up Highest 46° up in the NE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 03:57–03:59	Fairly bright mag -1.5	Appears NE, 23° up Highest 23° up in the NE Disappears E, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov 04:45–04:48	Very bright mag -3.1	Appears W, 32° up Highest 36° up in the SW Disappears SSE, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov 18:08–18:08	Fairly bright mag -1.3	Appears SSE, 10° up Highest 12° up in the SSE Disappears SSE, 12° up
Sat 7 Nov 04:00–04:01	Fairly bright mag -1.6	Appears SE, 23° up Highest 23° up in the SE Disappears SE, 10° up
Sat 7 Nov 18:55–18:56	Fairly bright mag -1.1	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 19° up in the WSW Disappears WSW, 19° up
Sun 8 Nov 18:08–18:11	Very bright mag -3.9	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 64° up in the SE Disappears E, 58° up
Mon 9 Nov 17:20–17:26	Bright mag -2.8	Appears S, 10° up Highest 29° up in the SE Disappears ENE, 11° up
Mon 9 Nov 18:58–18:59	Faint mag -0.8	Appears W, 10° up Highest 14° up in the WNW Disappears WNW, 14° up
Tue 10 Nov 18:09–18:14	Bright mag -2.0	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 28° up in the NW Disappears N, 19° up
Wed 11 Nov 17:21–17:28	Very bright mag -3.2	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 57° up in the NW Disappears NNE, 10° up

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

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

Coming up in the sky over Dammam

Mars and Jupiter conjunction: Mon 16 Nov, 04:59: 1.2° apart, 72° up in the south-east
Leonid meteor shower: Night of 16–17 Nov: 00:54–04:37, up to about 14 an hour
Night of 17–18 Nov: 00:50–04:37, up to about 14 an hour
Geminid meteor shower: Night of 13–14 Dec: 20:32–04:53, up to about 150 an hour
Night of 14–15 Dec: 21:26–04:54, up to about 150 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 Saudi Arabia

Jeddah · Riyadh · Makkah · Madinah · Sultanah

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.