See the ISS from Lisbon, Portugal

The International Space Station is visible from Lisbon 10 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Wed 11 Nov at 19:07 (very bright, 90° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Tue 3 Nov 05:33–05:36	Very bright mag -3.8	Appears WSW, 60° up Highest 62° up in the SW Disappears SE, 10° up
Wed 4 Nov 04:48–04:49	Fairly bright mag -1.2	Appears ESE, 20° up Highest 20° up in the ESE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Wed 4 Nov 06:21–06:23	Fairly bright mag -1.5	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 11° up in the SW Disappears SW, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 05:36–05:37	Fairly bright mag -1.5	Appears SSW, 16° up Highest 16° up in the SSW Disappears S, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov 19:03–19:05	Bright mag -2.0	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 22° up in the SSE Disappears SSE, 22° up
Tue 10 Nov 18:17–18:20	Fairly bright mag -1.9	Appears SSE, 10° up Highest 15° up in the SE Disappears ESE, 13° up
Tue 10 Nov 19:52–19:53	Fairly bright mag -1.0	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 17° up in the WSW Disappears WSW, 17° up
Wed 11 Nov 19:04–19:07	Very bright mag -3.9	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 90° up in the WSW Disappears NE, 89° up
Thu 12 Nov 18:17–18:22	Very bright mag -3.4	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 48° up in the SE Disappears ENE, 18° up
Thu 12 Nov 19:54–19:55	Faint mag -0.8	Appears W, 10° up Highest 15° up in the WNW Disappears WNW, 15° up

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

Also for Lisbon: 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.