See the ISS from Los Angeles, United States

The International Space Station is visible from Los Angeles 13 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Tue 10 Nov at 18:03 (very bright, 70° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Tue 3 Nov 03:45–03:45	Faint mag -0.5	Appears ENE, 12° up Highest 12° up in the ENE Disappears ENE, 10° up
Tue 3 Nov 05:18–05:23	Very bright mag -3.3	Appears WNW, 20° up Highest 44° up in the SW Disappears SSE, 10° up
Wed 4 Nov 04:33–04:36	Very bright mag -3.3	Appears SE, 63° up Highest 63° up in the SE Disappears SE, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 03:48–03:48	Faint mag -0.5	Appears ESE, 11° up Highest 11° up in the ESE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 05:21–05:23	Fairly bright mag -1.6	Appears WSW, 13° up Highest 13° up in the SW Disappears SSW, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov 04:36–04:36	Fairly bright mag -1.1	Appears S, 13° up Highest 13° up in the S Disappears S, 10° up
Sat 7 Nov 18:47–18:47	Fairly bright mag -1.1	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 14° up in the SSW Disappears SSW, 14° up
Sun 8 Nov 18:00–18:02	Bright mag -2.1	Appears S, 10° up Highest 19° up in the SE Disappears SE, 19° up
Mon 9 Nov 18:48–18:50	Bright mag -2.3	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 36° up in the WSW Disappears WSW, 36° up
Tue 10 Nov 18:00–18:05	Very bright mag -3.9	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 70° up in the SE Disappears ENE, 34° up
Wed 11 Nov 17:18–17:19	Bright mag -2.5	Appears ENE, 19° up Highest 19° up in the ENE Disappears ENE, 10° up
Wed 11 Nov 18:50–18:52	Fairly bright mag -1.4	Appears W, 10° up Highest 20° up in the NW Disappears NW, 20° up
Thu 12 Nov 18:02–18:07	Bright mag -2.4	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 33° up in the NW Disappears NNE, 18° up

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

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

Coming up in the sky over Los Angeles

Mars and Jupiter conjunction: Mon 16 Nov, 05:26: 1.2° apart, 68° up in the south-east
Leonid meteor shower: Night of 16–17 Nov: 00:57–04:57, up to about 14 an hour
Night of 17–18 Nov: 00:53–04:58, up to about 14 an hour
Geminid meteor shower: Night of 13–14 Dec: 20:59–05:17, up to about 150 an hour
Night of 14–15 Dec: 21:56–05:18, 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 United States

New York City · Brooklyn · Chicago · Queens · Houston · Phoenix · Philadelphia · San Antonio

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.