See the ISS from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

The International Space Station is visible from Santa Cruz de la Sierra 3 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Wed 11 Nov at 04:55 (bright, 43° up).

WhenBrightnessWhere to look
Wed 4 Nov
18:43–18:46
Fairly bright
mag -1.0
Appears WNW, 14° up
Highest 15° up in the NW
Disappears NNW, 10° up
Wed 11 Nov
04:52–04:58
Bright
mag -2.7
Appears NNW, 10° up
Highest 43° up in the NE
Disappears SE, 10° up
Thu 12 Nov
04:06–04:10
Fairly bright
mag -1.5
Appears NNE, 14° up
Highest 20° up in the NE
Disappears ESE, 10° up

Times are local to Santa Cruz de la Sierra (America/La Paz). Directions are compass points; 90° up is straight overhead. Lower magnitude means brighter.

Also for Santa Cruz de la Sierra: 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 Bolivia

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.