See the ISS from Zamboanga, Philippines

The International Space Station is visible from Zamboanga 11 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Sun 8 Nov at 05:12 (very bright, 49° up).

WhenBrightnessWhere to look
Tue 3 Nov
19:10–19:11
Fairly bright
mag -1.4
Appears SSW, 10° up
Highest 19° up in the SSW
Disappears SSW, 19° up
Wed 4 Nov
18:23–18:26
Bright
mag -2.5
Appears S, 10° up
Highest 23° up in the SE
Disappears ESE, 22° up
Thu 5 Nov
19:12–19:14
Fairly bright
mag -1.6
Appears WSW, 10° up
Highest 23° up in the WNW
Disappears WNW, 23° up
Fri 6 Nov
05:08–05:14
Fairly bright
mag -1.8
Appears N, 10° up
Highest 27° up in the NE
Disappears ESE, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov
18:24–18:29
Very bright
mag -3.2
Appears SW, 10° up
Highest 57° up in the NW
Disappears NNE, 17° up
Sat 7 Nov
04:22–04:25
Faint
mag -0.8
Appears NNE, 10° up
Highest 13° up in the NE
Disappears E, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov
05:09–05:16
Very bright
mag -3.5
Appears NW, 10° up
Highest 49° up in the SW
Disappears SSE, 10° up
Sun 8 Nov
18:27–18:30
Faint
mag -0.7
Appears WNW, 10° up
Highest 11° up in the NW
Disappears NNW, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov
04:24–04:28
Very bright
mag -3.4
Appears N, 43° up
Highest 63° up in the NE
Disappears SE, 10° up
Tue 10 Nov
03:39–03:40
Faint
mag -0.9
Appears E, 17° up
Highest 17° up in the E
Disappears ESE, 10° up
Wed 11 Nov
04:27–04:29
Fairly bright
mag -1.8
Appears SSW, 19° up
Highest 19° up in the SSW
Disappears S, 10° up

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

Also for Zamboanga: dark-sky calendar, the moonless hours each night.

Coming up in the sky over Zamboanga

Mars and Jupiter conjunction
Mon 16 Nov, 04:42: 1.2° apart, 68° up in the east
Leonid meteor shower
Night of 16–17 Nov: 01:33–04:27, up to about 13 an hour
Night of 17–18 Nov: 01:29–04:27, up to about 13 an hour
Geminid meteor shower
Night of 13–14 Dec: 21:10–04:36, up to about 130 an hour
Night of 14–15 Dec: 21:50–04:37, up to about 130 an hour

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 Philippines

Updated 3 November 2026 at 07:00 UTC, from ISS orbit elements 0.5 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.