See the ISS from Marseille, France

The International Space Station is visible from Marseille 7 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Thu 12 Nov at 19:22 (bright, 47° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Tue 3 Nov 05:00–05:01	Fairly bright mag -1.6	Appears SE, 24° up Highest 24° up in the SE Disappears SE, 10° up
Wed 4 Nov 05:48–05:49	Fairly bright mag -1.5	Appears SSW, 15° up Highest 15° up in the SSW Disappears S, 10° up
Tue 10 Nov 19:18–19:20	Fairly bright mag -1.6	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 20° up in the S Disappears S, 20° up
Wed 11 Nov 18:31–18:34	Bright mag -2.2	Appears S, 10° up Highest 20° up in the SE Disappears ESE, 20° up
Wed 11 Nov 20:07–20:07	Faint mag -0.5	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 11° up in the WSW Disappears WSW, 11° up
Thu 12 Nov 17:47–17:48	Fairly bright mag -1.5	Appears ESE, 12° up Highest 12° up in the ESE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Thu 12 Nov 19:19–19:22	Bright mag -2.8	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 47° up in the WSW Disappears WSW, 47° up

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

Also for Marseille: 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 France

Paris

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.