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Last updated: Oct 9, 2026 14:04 UTC

Next visible passes · Tokyo

Date	Appears	Highest	Disappears	Max. altitude	Visible for
10/12/26 Mon	04:51 SSE	04:53 SE	04:54 E	13°	3 min
10/14/26 Wed	04:52 SSW	04:55 SE	04:58 ENE	44°	6 min
10/15/26 Thu	04:06 S	04:08 SE	04:10 ENE	24°	4 min
10/16/26 Fri	04:55 WSW	04:57 NW	05:00 NE	50°	6 min
10/17/26 Sat	04:10 ENE	04:10 ENE	04:13 NE	80°	3 min
10/18/26 Sun	04:58 WNW	04:59 NNW	05:02 NNE	20°	4 min
10/19/26 Mon	04:13 N	04:13 N	04:15 NNE	24°	2 min

Japan (prefectural capitals)

City	Prefecture	Next visible pass	Max. altitude	#
Naha	Okinawa	10/11/26 05:34	16°	5
Miyazaki	Miyazaki	10/11/26 05:36	14°	9
Kagoshima	Kagoshima	10/11/26 05:36	13°	9
Yamaguchi	Yamaguchi	10/11/26 05:37	12°	9
Tokushima	Tokushima	10/11/26 05:37	15°	9
Takamatsu	Kagawa	10/11/26 05:37	15°	10
Saga	Saga	10/11/26 05:37	11°	9
Okayama	Okayama	10/11/26 05:37	14°	10
Ōita	Ōita	10/11/26 05:37	13°	9
Nagasaki	Nagasaki	10/11/26 05:37	11°	9
Kumamoto	Kumamoto	10/11/26 05:37	12°	9
Kochi	Kōchi	10/11/26 05:37	15°	9
Hiroshima	Hiroshima	10/11/26 05:37	13°	9
Fukuoka	Fukuoka	10/11/26 05:37	11°	9
Matsuyama	Ehime	10/11/26 05:37	14°	9
Tottori	Tottori	10/11/26 05:38	14°	10
Matsue	Shimane	10/11/26 05:38	12°	10
Yokohama	Kanagawa	10/12/26 04:51	13°	7
Tokyo	Tokyo	10/12/26 04:51	13°	7
Shizuoka	Shizuoka	10/12/26 04:51	12°	7
Chiba	Chiba	10/12/26 04:51	14°	8
Saitama	Saitama	10/12/26 04:51	13°	7
Utsunomiya	Tochigi	10/12/26 04:52	12°	7
Maebashi	Gunma	10/12/26 04:52	11°	7
Kofu	Yamanashi	10/12/26 04:52	12°	7
Mito	Ibaraki	10/12/26 04:52	13°	9
Fukushima	Fukushima	10/12/26 04:52	12°	9
Yamagata	Yamagata	10/12/26 04:53	11°	8
Sendai	Miyagi	10/12/26 04:53	11°	9
Tsu	Mie	10/14/26 04:51	35°	6
Otsu	Shiga	10/14/26 04:51	31°	6
Osaka	Osaka	10/14/26 04:51	31°	6
Nara	Nara	10/14/26 04:51	32°	6
Nagoya	Aichi	10/14/26 04:51	34°	6
Kyoto	Kyoto	10/14/26 04:51	31°	6
Kobe	Hyōgo	10/14/26 04:51	30°	6
Gifu	Gifu	10/14/26 04:51	33°	6
Wakayama	Wakayama	10/14/26 04:51	32°	6
Toyama	Toyama	10/14/26 04:52	30°	6
Niigata	Niigata	10/14/26 04:52	31°	6
Nagano	Nagano	10/14/26 04:52	33°	6
Kanazawa	Ishikawa	10/14/26 04:52	28°	6
Fukui	Fukui	10/14/26 04:52	29°	6
Morioka	Iwate	10/14/26 04:53	31°	7
Akita	Akita	10/14/26 04:53	28°	7
Aomori	Aomori	10/14/26 04:53	26°	7
Sapporo	Hokkaido	10/14/26 04:54	21°	7

World cities

City	Country / region	Next visible pass	Max. altitude	#
Lilongwe	Malawi	10/10/26 03:51	34°	1
Jakarta	Indonesia	10/10/26 04:12	49°	2
Kinshasa	Congo - Kinshasa	10/10/26 04:24	63°	1
Yaoundé	Cameroon	10/10/26 04:25	16°	3
N'Djamena	Chad	10/10/26 04:28	12°	4
Bogotá	Colombia	10/10/26 04:37	51°	3
Quito	Ecuador	10/10/26 04:37	43°	2
Nairobi	Kenya	10/10/26 04:51	32°	3
Kampala	Uganda	10/10/26 04:51	16°	3
Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	10/10/26 04:51	86°	1
Mogadishu	Somalia	10/10/26 04:52	85°	3
Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	10/10/26 04:54	16°	3
Sanaa	Yemen	10/10/26 04:56	18°	4
Abidjan	Côte d’Ivoire	10/10/26 04:58	42°	3
Yamoussoukro	Côte d’Ivoire	10/10/26 04:59	30°	3
Accra	Ghana	10/10/26 04:59	76°	3
Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	10/10/26 05:00	29°	4
Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	10/10/26 05:00	11°	6
Bamako	Mali	10/10/26 05:01	12°	4
Brasília	Brazil	10/10/26 05:04	13°	1
Denpasar	Indonesia	10/10/26 05:12	33°	2
Singapore	Singapore	10/10/26 05:12	15°	3
Guatemala City	Guatemala	10/10/26 05:13	50°	4
Mexico City	Mexico	10/10/26 05:16	10°	6
Manila	Philippines	10/10/26 05:17	43°	4
Kaohsiung	Taiwan	10/10/26 05:19	18°	6
Taipei	Taiwan	10/10/26 05:20	17°	6
Taichung	Taiwan	10/10/26 05:20	17°	6
Naypyidaw	Myanmar (Burma)	10/10/26 05:21	22°	7
Caracas	Venezuela	10/10/26 05:39	82°	4
Chiang Mai	Thailand	10/10/26 05:51	35°	6
Mumbai	India	10/10/26 05:54	25°	6
Honolulu	United States	10/10/26 05:54	40°	7
Lagos	Nigeria	10/10/26 06:00	67°	4
Niamey	Niger	10/10/26 06:01	43°	4
Alexandria	Egypt	10/10/26 06:34	13°	8
Dakar	Senegal	10/10/26 06:35	72°	5
Canberra	Australia	10/10/26 20:02	86°	5
Sydney	Australia	10/10/26 20:02	56°	3
Melbourne	Australia	10/10/26 20:02	42°	9
Auckland	New Zealand	10/10/26 20:29	87°	6
Wellington	New Zealand	10/10/26 20:30	48°	15
Khartoum	Sudan	10/11/26 04:42	40°	4
Phnom Penh	Cambodia	10/11/26 05:03	81°	4
Bangkok	Thailand	10/11/26 05:03	32°	4
Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	10/11/26 05:03	70°	3
Colombo	Sri Lanka	10/11/26 05:05	73°	3
Hanoi	Vietnam	10/11/26 05:05	32°	5
Bengaluru	India	10/11/26 05:06	39°	3
Dubai	United Arab Emirates	10/11/26 05:13	15°	5
Abuja	Nigeria	10/11/26 05:14	68°	3
Kano	Nigeria	10/11/26 05:14	57°	3
Kathmandu	Nepal	10/11/26 05:25	24°	7
Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	10/11/26 05:45	54°	5
Damascus	Syria	10/11/26 05:49	11°	7
Rabat	Morocco	10/11/26 05:54	17°	9
Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	10/11/26 06:02	63°	2
Chongqing	China	10/11/26 06:08	16°	8
Chengdu	China	10/11/26 06:10	11°	7
Miami	United States	10/11/26 06:30	28°	6
Washington, D.C.	United States	10/11/26 06:35	11°	11
San Francisco	United States	10/11/26 06:40	15°	11
Dhaka	Bangladesh	10/12/26 04:53	33°	5
Kabul	Afghanistan	10/12/26 05:00	15°	7
Baghdad	Iraq	10/12/26 05:02	15°	6
Hong Kong	Hong Kong	10/12/26 05:20	39°	4
Macau	Macau	10/12/26 05:20	36°	4
Shanghai	China	10/12/26 05:23	36°	7
Karachi	Pakistan	10/12/26 05:26	30°	5
Islamabad	Pakistan	10/12/26 05:29	24°	9
Lahore	Pakistan	10/12/26 05:29	35°	7
Peshawar	Pakistan	10/12/26 05:29	20°	9
Tehran	Iran	10/12/26 05:33	24°	10
Los Angeles	United States	10/12/26 05:53	18°	6
Algiers	Algeria	10/12/26 06:09	19°	10
Houston	United States	10/12/26 06:18	26°	6
Chicago	United States	10/12/26 06:22	16°	9
Athens	Greece	10/12/26 06:37	13°	9
Istanbul	Türkiye	10/12/26 06:38	16°	9
Barcelona	Spain	10/12/26 07:11	11°	9
New Delhi	India	10/13/26 05:11	34°	5
Delhi	India	10/13/26 05:11	34°	5
Seoul	South Korea	10/13/26 05:38	18°	6
Busan	South Korea	10/13/26 05:38	28°	8
Pyongyang	North Korea	10/13/26 05:39	14°	6
Cairo	Egypt	10/13/26 05:48	34°	5
Ankara	Türkiye	10/13/26 05:51	15°	6
Rome	Italy	10/13/26 06:24	16°	8
Vienna	Austria	10/13/26 06:27	11°	8
Budapest	Hungary	10/13/26 06:27	15°	8
New York City	United States	10/13/26 06:36	24°	9
Ottawa	Canada	10/13/26 06:37	18°	9
Toronto	Canada	10/13/26 06:37	16°	8
Seattle	United States	10/13/26 06:44	15°	8
Vancouver	Canada	10/13/26 06:45	12°	8
Lisbon	Portugal	10/13/26 06:56	27°	9
Beijing	China	10/14/26 05:26	27°	7
Tashkent	Uzbekistan	10/14/26 05:32	23°	7
Bucharest	Romania	10/14/26 06:39	23°	7
Kyiv	Ukraine	10/14/26 06:41	16°	7
Madrid	Spain	10/14/26 07:10	21°	6
Geneva	Switzerland	10/14/26 07:13	25°	7
Paris	France	10/14/26 07:14	14°	6
Brussels	Belgium	10/14/26 07:15	13°	6
Amsterdam	Netherlands	10/14/26 07:16	11°	6
Milan	Italy	10/15/26 06:26	22°	5
Munich	Germany	10/15/26 06:27	19°	6
Prague	Czechia	10/15/26 06:28	18°	6
Frankfurt	Germany	10/15/26 06:28	12°	5
Berlin	Germany	10/15/26 06:29	13°	5
Dublin	Ireland	10/15/26 07:02	15°	6
Astana	Kazakhstan	10/16/26 05:36	20°	4
Warsaw	Poland	10/16/26 05:42	15°	4
London	United Kingdom	10/16/26 06:15	19°	4
Moscow	Russia	10/17/26 05:58	17°	3
Hamburg	Germany	10/17/26 06:30	18°	3
Copenhagen	Denmark	10/17/26 06:31	16°	3
Stockholm	Sweden	10/17/26 06:32	12°	2
Saint Petersburg	Russia	10/18/26 06:47	14°	2
Helsinki	Finland	10/18/26 06:47	11°	1
Oslo	Norway	10/18/26 07:20	14°	2
Luanda	Angola	10/9/26 18:27	15°	2
Lima	Peru	10/9/26 18:40	12°	2
Dodoma	Tanzania	10/9/26 18:53	13°	3
Antananarivo	Madagascar	10/9/26 18:58	13°	2
São Paulo	Brazil	10/9/26 19:10	20°	1
Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	10/9/26 19:11	14°	2
Cape Town	South Africa	10/9/26 19:31	52°	6
Pretoria	South Africa	10/9/26 19:32	18°	2
Johannesburg	South Africa	10/9/26 19:32	19°	3
Maputo	Mozambique	10/9/26 19:34	12°	2
Santiago	Chile	10/9/26 20:44	78°	5
Buenos Aires	Argentina	10/9/26 20:46	27°	4
Lusaka	Zambia	–	–	0
Harare	Zimbabwe	–	–	0
Anchorage	United States	–	–	0

By region & ranking

Trajectory data covers: 2026-10-09 14:04 – 2026-10-19 14:04 UTC · NASA OEM 2026-10-07T21:32 UTC

Method

Positions are interpolated from NASA’s ISS trajectory file (state vectors every 4 minutes, 15 days) and converted to each city’s local horizon with Skyfield and the JPL DE421 ephemeris for the Sun. A pass is listed when the station is at least 10° above the horizon, lit by the Sun, while the Sun is at least 6° below the horizon for the observer (twilight or night). Directions are where to look; times are local and rounded to the minute. Atmospheric refraction and terrain are ignored.

About this page

Upcoming visible passes of the International Space Station over Tokyo and other cities, computed from NASA’s published trajectory.

The ISS looks like a bright, steady star moving across the sky in a few minutes; it does not blink.