See the ISS from Kampala, Uganda

The International Space Station is visible from Kampala 8 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Wed 4 Nov at 19:36 (very bright, 81° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Tue 3 Nov 20:21–20:23	Fairly bright mag -1.6	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 25° up in the W Disappears W, 25° up
Wed 4 Nov 19:33–19:38	Very bright mag -3.8	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 81° up in the NW Disappears NNE, 28° up
Fri 6 Nov 19:36–19:40	Fairly bright mag -1.0	Appears W, 10° up Highest 15° up in the NW Disappears NNW, 10° up
Sat 7 Nov 05:36–05:39	Faint mag -0.8	Appears NNE, 10° up Highest 13° up in the NE Disappears E, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov 05:36–05:42	Very bright mag -3.4	Appears NNW, 16° up Highest 66° up in the NE Disappears SE, 10° up
Tue 10 Nov 04:51–04:54	Fairly bright mag -1.8	Appears ENE, 27° up Highest 27° up in the ENE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Wed 11 Nov 05:39–05:43	Bright mag -2.2	Appears WSW, 19° up Highest 21° up in the SW Disappears S, 10° up
Thu 12 Nov 04:54–04:56	Fairly bright mag -1.8	Appears S, 25° up Highest 25° up in the S Disappears SSE, 10° up

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

Also for Kampala: 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.