See the ISS from Rawalpindi, Pakistan

The International Space Station is visible from Rawalpindi 11 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Wed 4 Nov at 05:09 (very bright, 71° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Wed 4 Nov 05:09–05:13	Very bright mag -3.8	Appears WNW, 47° up Highest 71° up in the SW Disappears SE, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 04:24–04:25	Fairly bright mag -1.6	Appears ESE, 25° up Highest 25° up in the ESE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 05:58–05:59	Fairly bright mag -1.4	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 10° up in the SW Disappears SW, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov 05:12–05:13	Fairly bright mag -1.8	Appears SSW, 18° up Highest 18° up in the SSW Disappears S, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov 18:37–18:38	Fairly bright mag -1.9	Appears S, 10° up Highest 21° up in the SSE Disappears SSE, 21° up
Mon 9 Nov 17:50–17:53	Fairly bright mag -1.7	Appears SSE, 10° up Highest 14° up in the SE Disappears ESE, 11° up
Mon 9 Nov 19:25–19:26	Fairly bright mag -1.0	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 17° up in the WSW Disappears WSW, 17° up
Tue 10 Nov 18:37–18:41	Very bright mag -3.8	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 83° up in the NW Disappears NNE, 74° up
Wed 11 Nov 17:50–17:56	Very bright mag -3.5	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 48° up in the SE Disappears ENE, 15° up
Wed 11 Nov 19:28–19:29	Faint mag -0.7	Appears WNW, 10° up Highest 13° up in the WNW Disappears WNW, 13° up
Thu 12 Nov 18:39–18:43	Fairly bright mag -1.9	Appears W, 10° up Highest 25° up in the NW Disappears N, 22° up

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

Also for Rawalpindi: 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 Pakistan

Lahore · Karachi · Peshawar · Faisalabad · Gujranwala · Multan · Hyderabad · Quetta

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.