See the ISS from Lome, Togo

The International Space Station is visible from Lome 10 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Sun 8 Nov at 04:57 (very bright, 86° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Tue 3 Nov 18:54–18:56	Bright mag -2.4	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 29° up in the SSE Disappears SSE, 29° up
Wed 4 Nov 18:07–18:11	Bright mag -2.0	Appears SSE, 10° up Highest 17° up in the SE Disappears E, 13° up
Thu 5 Nov 18:55–18:59	Bright mag -2.3	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 32° up in the NW Disappears NNW, 28° up
Fri 6 Nov 04:53–04:57	Fairly bright mag -1.2	Appears N, 10° up Highest 17° up in the NE Disappears E, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov 18:07–18:14	Very bright mag -3.7	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 83° up in the NW Disappears NE, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov 04:54–05:00	Very bright mag -3.8	Appears NW, 15° up Highest 86° up in the SW Disappears SE, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov 18:10–18:14	Fairly bright mag -1.1	Appears W, 10° up Highest 15° up in the NW Disappears NNW, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov 04:09–04:12	Bright mag -2.4	Appears NE, 37° up Highest 37° up in the NE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Tue 10 Nov 04:57–05:00	Fairly bright mag -1.9	Appears WSW, 14° up Highest 16° up in the SW Disappears SSW, 10° up
Wed 11 Nov 04:12–04:13	Fairly bright mag -1.6	Appears S, 20° up Highest 20° up in the S Disappears SSE, 10° up

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

Also for Lome: 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.