ISS TonightSee the ISS from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The International Space Station is visible from Rio de Janeiro once in the next 10 days. It’s on Wed 11 Nov at 04:23 (fairly bright, 17° up).
| When | Brightness | Where to look | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 11 Nov 04:21–04:25 |
Fairly bright mag -1.2 |
Appears NNE, 10° up Highest 17° up in the NE Disappears E, 10° up |
All passes on this page have happened; it updates daily.
Times are local to Rio de Janeiro (America/Sao Paulo). Directions are compass points; 90° up is straight overhead. Lower magnitude means brighter.
Also for Rio de Janeiro: 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 Brazil
Sao Paulo · Belo Horizonte · Salvador · Fortaleza · Manaus · Brasilia · Curitiba · Recife
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.