Is there a meteor shower tonight?
Is a meteor shower visible tonight?
A handful of nights a year, the big annual meteor showers — the Perseids in August, the Geminids in December, the Quadrantids in January — produce 60 to 120 meteors an hour under dark skies. Most other nights offer only the sparse background rate, whatever a headline might promise.
This tool tells you what's actually active tonight, how strong it is, and whether your city's conditions — cloud cover and moonlight — will let you see it, plus when the next major shower peaks so you can plan ahead.
The viewing recipe is simple: go after midnight if you can, get away from city lights, let your eyes adapt for 20 minutes, and look at the whole sky rather than one point — meteors can appear anywhere.
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How it works
This page combines three factors to predict your viewing conditions: the meteor shower calendar (which major showers are active or peaking), local cloud cover from Open-Meteo weather data, and moon phase from astronomical calculations. A high score means a shower is peaking, the sky is clear, and the moon is dark. Even when no major shower is active, the sky conditions shown here are accurate — there are always sporadic meteors (5–10 per hour) visible on clear, moonless nights. The shower calendar is based on well-established annual meteor showers; dates are fixed year-over-year since these showers recur as Earth passes through cometary debris trails.