See the ISS from Seoul, South Korea

The International Space Station is visible from Seoul 8 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Wed 11 Nov at 18:49 (very bright, 60° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Wed 4 Nov 04:30–04:30	Faint mag -0.8	Appears E, 15° up Highest 15° up in the E Disappears ESE, 10° up
Wed 4 Nov 06:03–06:07	Bright mag -2.3	Appears W, 17° up Highest 21° up in the SW Disappears S, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 05:18–05:20	Bright mag -2.2	Appears S, 27° up Highest 27° up in the S Disappears SSE, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov 18:45–18:47	Fairly bright mag -1.8	Appears S, 10° up Highest 17° up in the SE Disappears SE, 17° up
Tue 10 Nov 19:33–19:35	Fairly bright mag -1.7	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 25° up in the WSW Disappears WSW, 25° up
Wed 11 Nov 18:46–18:50	Very bright mag -3.8	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 60° up in the SE Disappears E, 50° up
Thu 12 Nov 17:58–18:04	Bright mag -2.8	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 32° up in the SE Disappears ENE, 12° up
Thu 12 Nov 19:35–19:37	Fairly bright mag -1.4	Appears W, 10° up Highest 22° up in the WNW Disappears WNW, 22° up

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

Also for Seoul: 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 South Korea

Busan · Incheon · Daegu · Daejeon · Gwangju · Suwon · Ulsan · Goyang-si

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.