See the ISS from Port Harcourt, Nigeria

The International Space Station is visible from Port Harcourt 11 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Mon 9 Nov at 05:10 (very bright, 80° up).

WhenBrightnessWhere to look
Tue 3 Nov
19:54–19:56
Fairly bright
mag -1.8
Appears SW, 10° up
Highest 27° up in the SW
Disappears SW, 27° up
Wed 4 Nov
19:07–19:11
Very bright
mag -3.4
Appears SSW, 10° up
Highest 43° up in the SE
Disappears ENE, 31° up
Thu 5 Nov
19:57–19:59
Faint
mag -0.9
Appears W, 10° up
Highest 13° up in the NW
Disappears NW, 13° up
Fri 6 Nov
05:53–05:56
Bright
mag -2.1
Appears NNW, 10° up
Highest 27° up in the NNE
Disappears NNE, 27° up
Fri 6 Nov
19:08–19:14
Bright
mag -2.0
Appears WSW, 10° up
Highest 28° up in the NW
Disappears N, 10° up
Sat 7 Nov
05:07–05:11
Fairly bright
mag -1.0
Appears NNE, 10° up
Highest 15° up in the NE
Disappears E, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov
05:55–05:56
Bright
mag -2.4
Appears NW, 10° up
Highest 19° up in the WNW
Disappears WNW, 19° up
Mon 9 Nov
05:09–05:14
Very bright
mag -3.7
Appears NNW, 37° up
Highest 80° up in the NE
Disappears SE, 10° up
Tue 10 Nov
04:24–04:26
Fairly bright
mag -1.3
Appears E, 22° up
Highest 22° up in the E
Disappears ESE, 10° up
Wed 11 Nov
05:12–05:14
Fairly bright
mag -1.8
Appears SW, 17° up
Highest 17° up in the SW
Disappears S, 10° up
Thu 12 Nov
04:27–04:27
Faint
mag -0.7
Appears SSE, 11° up
Highest 11° up in the SSE
Disappears SSE, 10° up

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

Also for Port Harcourt: 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 Nigeria

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.