See the ISS from Montreal, Canada

The International Space Station is visible from Montreal 4 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Thu 12 Nov at 18:01 (bright, 33° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Tue 3 Nov 05:12–05:13	Fairly bright mag -1.6	Appears SW, 15° up Highest 15° up in the SW Disappears S, 10° up
Tue 10 Nov 17:58–17:59	Fairly bright mag -1.4	Appears SSE, 10° up Highest 13° up in the SSE Disappears SSE, 13° up
Wed 11 Nov 18:45–18:46	Fairly bright mag -1.6	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 23° up in the SW Disappears SW, 23° up
Thu 12 Nov 17:58–18:01	Bright mag -2.9	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 33° up in the SE Disappears SE, 33° up

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

Also for Montreal: 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 Canada

Toronto · Calgary · Ottawa · Edmonton

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.