Night sky tonight in Mexico City
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 18:08, properly dark from 19:00, getting light from 05:43, sunrise 06:34 (local time).
The Moon is 56 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 00:30. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 02:50 to 05:40, highest at 05:40 in the east, 50° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 19:00 to 04:40, highest at 23:30 in the south, 72° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 02:10 to 05:40, highest at 05:40 in the east, 61° up. Magnitude 1.0.
Not visible: Mercury, Venus (too close to the Sun or not up in the dark).
ISS and space stations
- Hubble: Monday 19 October, 04:41 to 04:43, from the east to the east, up to 35°
- Tiangong: Monday 19 October, 19:06 to 19:10, from the southwest to the northeast, up to 88°
- Tiangong: Tuesday 20 October, 19:44 to 19:46, from the west to the northwest, up to 17°
- Hubble: Wednesday 21 October, 05:14 to 05:16, from the south to the south, up to 20°
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
- 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.