See the ISS from Taichung, Taiwan

The International Space Station is visible from Taichung 12 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Sun 8 Nov at 18:32 (very bright, 84° up).

WhenBrightnessWhere to look
Wed 4 Nov
05:03–05:09
Bright
mag -2.3
Appears NNW, 11° up
Highest 33° up in the NE
Disappears ESE, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov
04:18–04:20
Fairly bright
mag -1.3
Appears NE, 18° up
Highest 18° up in the NE
Disappears E, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov
05:06–05:10
Very bright
mag -3.5
Appears WNW, 27° up
Highest 49° up in the SW
Disappears SSE, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov
18:28–18:29
Fairly bright
mag -1.5
Appears S, 10° up
Highest 15° up in the SSE
Disappears SSE, 15° up
Sat 7 Nov
04:21–04:23
Bright
mag -2.3
Appears SE, 37° up
Highest 37° up in the SE
Disappears SE, 10° up
Sat 7 Nov
19:16–19:17
Fairly bright
mag -1.1
Appears WSW, 10° up
Highest 19° up in the WSW
Disappears WSW, 19° up
Sun 8 Nov
05:09–05:10
Fairly bright
mag -1.4
Appears SW, 11° up
Highest 11° up in the SW
Disappears SW, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov
18:28–18:32
Very bright
mag -3.9
Appears SW, 10° up
Highest 84° up in the SE
Disappears NE, 58° up
Mon 9 Nov
17:41–17:47
Very bright
mag -3.1
Appears SSW, 10° up
Highest 36° up in the SE
Disappears ENE, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov
19:19–19:20
Faint
mag -0.6
Appears WNW, 10° up
Highest 12° up in the NW
Disappears NW, 12° up
Tue 10 Nov
18:31–18:35
Fairly bright
mag -1.6
Appears W, 10° up
Highest 22° up in the NW
Disappears N, 15° up
Wed 11 Nov
17:42–17:49
Bright
mag -2.8
Appears WSW, 10° up
Highest 43° up in the NW
Disappears NNE, 10° up

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

Also for Taichung: 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 Taiwan

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.