See the ISS from Makkah, Saudi Arabia

The International Space Station is visible from Makkah 12 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Sat 7 Nov at 18:56 (very bright, 65° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Thu 5 Nov 05:30–05:36	Very bright mag -3.4	Appears NNW, 15° up Highest 65° up in the NE Disappears SE, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 18:53–18:53	Fairly bright mag -1.2	Appears SSE, 10° up Highest 11° up in the SSE Disappears SSE, 11° up
Fri 6 Nov 04:45–04:48	Bright mag -2.0	Appears NE, 30° up Highest 30° up in the NE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov 19:40–19:41	Fairly bright mag -1.1	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 18° up in the WSW Disappears WSW, 18° up
Sat 7 Nov 05:33–05:37	Bright mag -2.5	Appears W, 21° up Highest 24° up in the SW Disappears S, 10° up
Sat 7 Nov 18:53–18:56	Very bright mag -3.9	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 65° up in the SE Disappears E, 57° up
Sun 8 Nov 04:48–04:49	Fairly bright mag -1.9	Appears SSE, 25° up Highest 25° up in the SSE Disappears SSE, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov 18:05–18:11	Bright mag -2.7	Appears S, 10° up Highest 28° up in the SE Disappears ENE, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov 19:43–19:44	Faint mag -0.7	Appears WNW, 10° up Highest 13° up in the WNW Disappears WNW, 13° up
Mon 9 Nov 18:54–18:59	Fairly bright mag -1.8	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 25° up in the NW Disappears N, 16° up
Tue 10 Nov 18:06–18:13	Very bright mag -3.1	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 53° up in the NW Disappears NNE, 10° up
Thu 12 Nov 18:09–18:13	Fairly bright mag -1.0	Appears WNW, 10° up Highest 14° up in the NW Disappears N, 10° up

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

Also for Makkah: 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.

Other cities in Saudi Arabia

Jeddah · Riyadh · Madinah · Dammam · Sultanah

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.