See the ISS from San Diego, United States

The International Space Station is visible from San Diego 13 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Tue 10 Nov at 18:03 (very bright, 85° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Tue 3 Nov 03:45–03:45	Faint mag -0.6	Appears ENE, 13° up Highest 13° up in the ENE Disappears ENE, 10° up
Tue 3 Nov 05:18–05:23	Very bright mag -3.4	Appears WNW, 16° up Highest 46° up in the SW Disappears SSE, 10° up
Wed 4 Nov 04:33–04:36	Very bright mag -3.7	Appears E, 85° up Highest 85° up in the E Disappears SE, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 03:48–03:48	Faint mag -0.7	Appears ESE, 14° up Highest 14° up in the ESE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 05:21–05:23	Fairly bright mag -1.7	Appears WSW, 12° up Highest 13° up in the SW Disappears SSW, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov 04:36–04:37	Fairly bright mag -1.4	Appears S, 16° up Highest 16° up in the S Disappears S, 10° up
Sat 7 Nov 18:46–18:47	Fairly bright mag -1.2	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 16° up in the SSW Disappears SSW, 16° up
Sun 8 Nov 17:59–18:02	Bright mag -2.5	Appears S, 10° up Highest 24° up in the SE Disappears SE, 24° up
Mon 9 Nov 18:48–18:50	Bright mag -2.0	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 32° up in the W Disappears W, 32° up
Tue 10 Nov 18:00–18:05	Very bright mag -3.8	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 85° up in the NW Disappears NE, 33° up
Wed 11 Nov 17:15–17:19	Very bright mag -3.3	Appears SSE, 43° up Highest 46° up in the SE Disappears ENE, 10° up
Wed 11 Nov 18:51–18:52	Fairly bright mag -1.1	Appears WNW, 10° up Highest 16° up in the NW Disappears NW, 16° up
Thu 12 Nov 18:02–18:07	Fairly bright mag -1.9	Appears W, 10° up Highest 25° up in the NW Disappears N, 15° up

Times are local to San Diego (America/Los Angeles). Directions are compass points; 90° up is straight overhead. Lower magnitude means brighter.

Also for San Diego: 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 United States

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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.