Night sky tonight in Madrid
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 19:27, properly dark from 20:31, getting light from 07:29, sunrise 08:32 (local time).
The Moon is 53 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 01:02. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 04:11 to 07:21, highest at 07:21 in the southeast, 46° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 20:31 to 06:11, highest at 01:11 in the south, 51° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 03:21 to 07:21, highest at 07:21 in the southeast, 56° up. Magnitude 1.0.
Not visible: Mercury, Venus (too close to the Sun or not up in the dark).
ISS and space stations
- ISS: Monday 19 October, 06:30 to 06:32, from the northeast to the northeast, up to 39°
- ISS: Tuesday 20 October, 07:18 to 07:21, from the northwest to the northeast, up to 22°
- ISS: Wednesday 21 October, 06:33 to 06:34, from the north to the northeast, up to 22°
Visible passes this night and the next two: the station lit by the Sun, the sky dark. It glides across the sky as a bright steady point, without blinking.
High in the sky at 10 pm
This week in the sky
- Comet 161P/Hartley-IRAS at its brightest: About magnitude 9.7: at the limit of binoculars, better in a telescope
- Orionids: peak: Up to 20 meteors an hour under an ideally dark sky. The Moon is 78 per cent lit then and drowns the fainter ones.