See the ISS from Pyongyang, North Korea

The International Space Station is visible from Pyongyang 8 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Wed 11 Nov at 18:49 (very bright, 43° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Wed 4 Nov 04:30–04:30	Faint mag -0.6	Appears ESE, 13° up Highest 13° up in the ESE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Wed 4 Nov 06:03–06:06	Bright mag -2.2	Appears WSW, 19° up Highest 20° up in the SW Disappears S, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 05:18–05:19	Fairly bright mag -1.7	Appears S, 21° up Highest 21° up in the S Disappears SSE, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov 18:46–18:47	Fairly bright mag -1.4	Appears SSE, 10° up Highest 13° up in the SE Disappears SE, 13° up
Tue 10 Nov 19:33–19:35	Fairly bright mag -1.7	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 25° up in the SW Disappears SW, 25° up
Wed 11 Nov 18:46–18:50	Very bright mag -3.4	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 43° up in the SE Disappears ESE, 39° up
Thu 12 Nov 17:59–18:04	Bright mag -2.4	Appears S, 10° up Highest 24° up in the SE Disappears ENE, 11° up
Thu 12 Nov 19:35–19:37	Fairly bright mag -1.8	Appears W, 10° up Highest 28° up in the WNW Disappears WNW, 28° up

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

Also for Pyongyang: 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.