ISS Sighting TimesWhere the ISS is visible most often (183 cities)
Top 20 cities
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Average passes by latitude band
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| City | Lat. | Passes | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington | -41.3 | 15 | 58° |
| Washington, D.C. | 38.9 | 11 | 71° |
| San Francisco | 37.8 | 11 | 87° |
| Tottori | 35.5 | 10 | 86° |
| Takamatsu | 34.3 | 10 | 75° |
| Okayama | 34.6 | 10 | 80° |
| Matsue | 35.5 | 10 | 83° |
| Algiers | 36.7 | 10 | 67° |
| Tehran | 35.7 | 10 | 85° |
| Yamaguchi | 34.2 | 9 | 83° |
| Tokushima | 34.1 | 9 | 68° |
| Saga | 33.2 | 9 | 83° |
| Ōita | 33.2 | 9 | 84° |
| Nagasaki | 32.8 | 9 | 85° |
| Miyazaki | 31.9 | 9 | 71° |
| Kumamoto | 32.8 | 9 | 87° |
| Kochi | 33.5 | 9 | 71° |
| Kagoshima | 31.6 | 9 | 75° |
| Hiroshima | 34.4 | 9 | 87° |
| Fukuoka | 33.6 | 9 | 80° |
| Matsuyama | 33.8 | 9 | 81° |
| Sendai | 38.3 | 9 | 68° |
| Mito | 36.4 | 9 | 84° |
| Fukushima | 37.8 | 9 | 71° |
| Ottawa | 45.4 | 9 | 74° |
| Rabat | 34.0 | 9 | 66° |
| Islamabad | 33.7 | 9 | 87° |
| Istanbul | 41.0 | 9 | 81° |
| New York City | 40.7 | 9 | 66° |
| Melbourne | -37.8 | 9 | 57° |
| Peshawar | 34.0 | 9 | 77° |
| Barcelona | 41.4 | 9 | 83° |
| Athens | 38.0 | 9 | 78° |
| Lisbon | 38.7 | 9 | 85° |
| Chicago | 41.9 | 9 | 80° |
| Yamagata | 38.2 | 8 | 70° |
| Chiba | 35.6 | 8 | 83° |
| Rome | 41.9 | 8 | 79° |
| Chongqing | 29.6 | 8 | 63° |
| Alexandria | 31.2 | 8 | 74° |
| Vienna | 48.2 | 8 | 74° |
| Toronto | 43.7 | 8 | 74° |
| Vancouver | 49.2 | 8 | 81° |
| Budapest | 47.5 | 8 | 78° |
| Busan | 35.1 | 8 | 76° |
| Seattle | 47.6 | 8 | 77° |
| Yokohama | 35.4 | 7 | 77° |
| Utsunomiya | 36.6 | 7 | 79° |
| Tokyo | 35.7 | 7 | 80° |
| Shizuoka | 35.0 | 7 | 62° |
| Maebashi | 36.4 | 7 | 72° |
| Kofu | 35.7 | 7 | 67° |
| Morioka | 39.7 | 7 | 81° |
| Akita | 39.7 | 7 | 86° |
| Sapporo | 43.1 | 7 | 82° |
| Aomori | 40.8 | 7 | 81° |
| Saitama | 35.9 | 7 | 81° |
| Kabul | 34.5 | 7 | 53° |
| Beijing | 39.9 | 7 | 87° |
| Naypyidaw | 19.7 | 7 | 69° |
| Kathmandu | 27.7 | 7 | 74° |
| Bucharest | 44.4 | 7 | 84° |
| Damascus | 33.5 | 7 | 83° |
| Kyiv | 50.5 | 7 | 62° |
| Tashkent | 41.3 | 7 | 71° |
| Shanghai | 31.2 | 7 | 77° |
| Chengdu | 30.7 | 7 | 54° |
| Lahore | 31.6 | 7 | 74° |
| Geneva | 46.2 | 7 | 85° |
| Honolulu | 21.3 | 7 | 84° |
| Tsu | 34.7 | 6 | 60° |
| Toyama | 36.7 | 6 | 75° |
| Otsu | 35.0 | 6 | 68° |
| Osaka | 34.7 | 6 | 67° |
| Niigata | 37.9 | 6 | 76° |
| Nara | 34.7 | 6 | 65° |
| Nagoya | 35.2 | 6 | 62° |
| Nagano | 36.6 | 6 | 68° |
| Kyoto | 35.0 | 6 | 69° |
| Kobe | 34.7 | 6 | 70° |
| Kanazawa | 36.6 | 6 | 79° |
| Gifu | 35.4 | 6 | 65° |
| Fukui | 36.1 | 6 | 77° |
| Wakayama | 34.2 | 6 | 65° |
| Madrid | 40.4 | 6 | 66° |
| Paris | 48.9 | 6 | 65° |
| Baghdad | 33.3 | 6 | 54° |
| Pyongyang | 39.0 | 6 | 59° |
| Seoul | 37.6 | 6 | 59° |
| Mexico City | 19.4 | 6 | 71° |
| Amsterdam | 52.4 | 6 | 40° |
| Riyadh | 24.7 | 6 | 47° |
| Ankara | 39.9 | 6 | 60° |
| Taipei | 25.1 | 6 | 79° |
| Mumbai | 19.1 | 6 | 59° |
| Cape Town | -33.9 | 6 | 52° |
| Brussels | 50.9 | 6 | 50° |
| Prague | 50.1 | 6 | 72° |
| Munich | 48.1 | 6 | 88° |
| Dublin | 53.3 | 6 | 44° |
| Auckland | -36.8 | 6 | 87° |
| Chiang Mai | 18.8 | 6 | 86° |
| Taichung | 24.1 | 6 | 79° |
| Kaohsiung | 22.6 | 6 | 87° |
| Miami | 25.8 | 6 | 63° |
| Houston | 29.8 | 6 | 72° |
| Los Angeles | 34.1 | 6 | 68° |
| Naha | 26.2 | 5 | 71° |
| Canberra | -35.3 | 5 | 86° |
| Dhaka | 23.7 | 5 | 47° |
| Santiago | -33.5 | 5 | 78° |
| Berlin | 52.5 | 5 | 43° |
| Cairo | 30.1 | 5 | 54° |
| New Delhi | 28.6 | 5 | 51° |
| Dakar | 14.7 | 5 | 72° |
| Hanoi | 21.0 | 5 | 74° |
| Karachi | 24.9 | 5 | 54° |
| Delhi | 28.7 | 5 | 51° |
| Jeddah | 21.5 | 5 | 62° |
| Dubai | 25.1 | 5 | 66° |
| Frankfurt | 50.1 | 5 | 53° |
| Milan | 45.5 | 5 | 65° |
| Buenos Aires | -34.6 | 4 | 46° |
| Ouagadougou | 12.4 | 4 | 44° |
| London | 51.5 | 4 | 36° |
| Guatemala City | 14.6 | 4 | 50° |
| Phnom Penh | 11.6 | 4 | 81° |
| Astana | 51.2 | 4 | 39° |
| Bamako | 12.6 | 4 | 65° |
| Niamey | 13.5 | 4 | 53° |
| Manila | 14.6 | 4 | 73° |
| Warsaw | 52.2 | 4 | 28° |
| Khartoum | 15.6 | 4 | 40° |
| N'Djamena | 12.1 | 4 | 63° |
| Bangkok | 13.8 | 4 | 40° |
| Caracas | 10.5 | 4 | 82° |
| Sanaa | 15.4 | 4 | 81° |
| Lagos | 6.5 | 4 | 67° |
| Hong Kong | 22.3 | 4 | 39° |
| Macau | 22.2 | 4 | 41° |
| Yamoussoukro | 6.8 | 3 | 41° |
| Yaoundé | 3.9 | 3 | 35° |
| Bogotá | 4.6 | 3 | 51° |
| Addis Ababa | 9.0 | 3 | 87° |
| Accra | 5.6 | 3 | 76° |
| Nairobi | -1.3 | 3 | 32° |
| Colombo | 6.9 | 3 | 73° |
| Abuja | 9.1 | 3 | 68° |
| Moscow | 55.8 | 3 | 26° |
| Mogadishu | 2.0 | 3 | 85° |
| Dodoma | -6.2 | 3 | 46° |
| Kampala | 0.3 | 3 | 35° |
| Ho Chi Minh City | 10.8 | 3 | 70° |
| Johannesburg | -26.2 | 3 | 34° |
| Bengaluru | 13.0 | 3 | 39° |
| Abidjan | 5.4 | 3 | 42° |
| Sydney | -33.9 | 3 | 56° |
| Kano | 12.0 | 3 | 57° |
| Hamburg | 53.6 | 3 | 32° |
| Copenhagen | 55.7 | 3 | 25° |
| Singapore | 1.3 | 3 | 36° |
| Luanda | -8.8 | 2 | 77° |
| Quito | -0.2 | 2 | 43° |
| Jakarta | -6.2 | 2 | 49° |
| Antananarivo | -18.9 | 2 | 23° |
| Kuala Lumpur | 3.1 | 2 | 63° |
| Maputo | -26.0 | 2 | 21° |
| Lima | -12.0 | 2 | 33° |
| Pretoria | -25.7 | 2 | 32° |
| Rio de Janeiro | -22.9 | 2 | 24° |
| Saint Petersburg | 59.9 | 2 | 14° |
| Denpasar | -8.7 | 2 | 33° |
| Oslo | 59.9 | 2 | 14° |
| Stockholm | 59.3 | 2 | 17° |
| Brasília | -15.8 | 1 | 13° |
| Kinshasa | -4.3 | 1 | 63° |
| Lilongwe | -14.0 | 1 | 34° |
| São Paulo | -23.5 | 1 | 20° |
| Dar es Salaam | -6.8 | 1 | 86° |
| Helsinki | 60.2 | 1 | 11° |
| Lusaka | -15.4 | 0 | 0° |
| Harare | -17.8 | 0 | 0° |
| Anchorage | 61.2 | 0 | 0° |
Passes computed from NASA's published ISS trajectory for up to 10 days ahead: the sky is dark (Sun below −6°), the ISS is sunlit and at least 10° high for a minute or more. Re-boosts change the times, so the list is refreshed daily.
Trajectory data covers: 2026-10-09 14:04 – 2026-10-19 14:04 UTC · NASA OEM 2026-10-07T21:32 UTC
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Cities ranked by visible passes in the current window. The ISS orbit is inclined about 51.6°, so visibility depends strongly on latitude and season.