Meteor showers tonight
The sky has a schedule. This page reads it for tonight: which of the year’s meteor showers are active right now, how strong they are, what the moon is doing — and, once you share a location, an honest hour-by-hour forecast for your own sky.
Active showers right now
Every stream the Earth is inside tonight, with its modeled ZHR-scale rate — your real count depends on your sky; use the local check below.
Check tonight over your place
Same engine as the city pages, computed in your browser: darkness hours, visible rate, cloud cover, and whether it’s worth going out tonight.
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Tonight’s answer is rarely “nothing”. Between the eleven headline showers the Earth crosses each year, their week-long shoulders, and the ever-present sporadic background, most clear nights offer something to catch — the honest question is how much, and whether your sky (moon, clouds, light pollution) will let you see it. That is exactly what the check above computes.
Rates on this page are ZHR-scale: the standardized rate under a perfectly dark sky with the radiant overhead. Real counts are lower — a bright moon can halve them, city glow can take 80%. For the full honest math, see our guides on ZHR and on reading the numbers, or open your city’s own page for a forecast computed for its exact coordinates.
A note on seasons: the meteor year is lumpy by design. Late July through mid-August stacks three streams at once; October through December runs almost continuously from the Orionids into the Geminids and Ursids; late winter and early summer are lean. A quiet answer tonight is not the sky failing — it is the calendar breathing between beats.
And if tonight disappoints, the schedule always names the next date. Every shower page carries its full activity window and per-city peak forecast, so a clouded-out evening costs you a night, never the year.
Tonight, in short
Is there a meteor shower tonight?+
2 of the year’s major showers are active tonight: Southern Delta Aquariids, Perseids. The strongest is the Southern Delta Aquariids at a modeled ~19 meteors/hour (ZHR scale). Use the local check on this page to see what your sky will actually show.
What time is best to watch tonight?+
After local midnight and before dawn, when your side of the Earth turns into the debris stream — and within your dark window, once the sun is far enough below the horizon. The local check above computes both for your exact spot.
Where should I look?+
Nowhere in particular — meteors streak across the whole sky. Lie back, take in as much sky as you can, and give your eyes twenty minutes to adapt. Knowing the radiant helps orientation, but staring at it actually shortens the trails you see.
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