See the ISS from Niamey, Niger

The International Space Station is visible from Niamey 8 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Fri 6 Nov at 19:12 (very bright, 47° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Thu 5 Nov 19:57–19:59	Bright mag -2.6	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 43° up in the WSW Disappears WSW, 43° up
Fri 6 Nov 05:51–05:57	Bright mag -2.6	Appears NNW, 11° up Highest 41° up in the NE Disappears SE, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov 19:09–19:14	Very bright mag -3.5	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 47° up in the SE Disappears ENE, 23° up
Sat 7 Nov 05:06–05:09	Fairly bright mag -1.4	Appears NE, 19° up Highest 19° up in the NE Disappears E, 10° up
Sat 7 Nov 20:00–20:02	Fairly bright mag -1.0	Appears W, 10° up Highest 14° up in the NW Disappears NW, 13° up
Sun 8 Nov 05:54–05:58	Very bright mag -3.0	Appears W, 24° up Highest 32° up in the SW Disappears S, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov 19:11–19:17	Bright mag -2.0	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 28° up in the NW Disappears N, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov 05:09–05:11	Bright mag -2.1	Appears SSE, 31° up Highest 31° up in the SSE Disappears SE, 10° up

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

Also for Niamey: 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.