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ISS Over Your City — the Next Passes, City by City

When the space station next crosses your sky — computed from its real orbital elements, labelled by whether you could actually see it. Free, no signup.

20
cities with computed pass tables
4,967
public cameras within 25 km of those cities
22.2° N, 93.1° W
the station's position as this page was built — 418 km up

The International Space Station circles the Earth every 93 minutes or so, and on the right evening it crosses your city as the brightest moving thing in the sky — no telescope, no app, just a minute of looking up at the right moment. This page exists to give you that moment honestly: for each of 20 cities, the station's next passes, computed from its current orbital elements with the same SGP4 propagation that puts the station on WorldEye's globe.

Honesty is the design. A pass only counts when the station climbs above 10 degrees — below that, no timetable should send you outside. And every pass is labelled with its real prospects: visible passes (dark sky, station in sunlight) are the ones worth an alarm; twilight and daylight passes are listed as what they are; and passes through Earth's shadow — invisible however clear the night — are named eclipsed rather than silently dropped, so a gap in the visible list is explained, not suspicious.

Predictions on this page are computed from the station's current orbital elements (TLE epoch 2026-10-27), refreshed hourly. Each city page pairs its pass table with the city's live public cameras — watch the streets below on the same evening the station crosses the sky above them.

The twenty cities — next pass first

Each card shows the city's next pass above 10 degrees in the next 72 hours, in the city's own time. Open a city for its full table — every pass, labelled — and its live cameras.

ISS over New York CityUnited States · 272 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 1:14 AM — peaks at 68°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for New York City →ISS over Los AngelesUnited States · 262 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Tue, Oct 27, 11:43 PM — peaks at 19°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Los Angeles →ISS over ChicagoUnited States · 35 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 12:13 AM — peaks at 17°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Chicago →ISS over PhoenixUnited States · 233 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Tue, Oct 27, 11:44 PM — peaks at 39°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Phoenix →ISS over SeattleUnited States · 515 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 1:21 AM — peaks at 23°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Seattle →ISS over AustinUnited States · 215 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 12:09 AM — peaks at 20°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Austin →ISS over DenverUnited States · 353 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 12:46 AM — peaks at 37°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Denver →ISS over Washington DCUnited States · 369 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 1:14 AM — peaks at 66°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Washington DC →ISS over San DiegoUnited States · 149 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Tue, Oct 27, 11:43 PM — peaks at 24°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for San Diego →ISS over NashvilleUnited States · 149 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 12:12 AM — peaks at 34°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Nashville →ISS over PhiladelphiaUnited States · 250 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 1:14 AM — peaks at 69°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Philadelphia →ISS over BusanSouth Korea · 323 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 11:28 PM — peaks at 29°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Busan →ISS over IncheonSouth Korea · 366 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 11:28 PM — peaks at 18°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Incheon →ISS over IstanbulTurkey · 121 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 8:34 AM — peaks at 34°. Daylight pass — station lit but the sky is brightPasses & cameras for Istanbul →ISS over CalgaryCanada · 242 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 2:23 AM — peaks at 25°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Calgary →ISS over MontrealCanada · 184 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 1:15 AM — peaks at 34°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Montreal →ISS over OsakaJapan · 261 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 11:29 PM — peaks at 65°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Osaka →ISS over SapporoJapan · 163 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 11:32 PM — peaks at 36°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Sapporo →ISS over TaipeiTaiwan · 414 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 10:25 PM — peaks at 37°. In Earth's shadow at peak — not visiblePasses & cameras for Taipei →ISS over ValenciaSpain · 91 cameras within 25 kmNext pass: Wed, Oct 28, 6:29 AM — peaks at 19°. Visible — dark sky, station in sunlightPasses & cameras for Valencia →

Camera counts — per city

AreaCameras
New York City (United States)272
Los Angeles (United States)262
Chicago (United States)35
Phoenix (United States)233
Seattle (United States)515
Austin (United States)215
Denver (United States)353
Washington DC (United States)369
San Diego (United States)149
Nashville (United States)149
Philadelphia (United States)250
Busan (South Korea)323
Incheon (South Korea)366
Istanbul (Turkey)121
Calgary (Canada)242
Montreal (Canada)184
Osaka (Japan)261
Sapporo (Japan)163
Taipei (Taiwan)414
Valencia (Spain)91

Counts are public cameras in the WorldEye directory within 25 km of each city's centre — the same radius the city pages state on their walls.

How to catch a pass

  1. 1Pick your city and find a pass labelled visible — dark sky, station lit. Those are the ones worth planning around.
  2. 2Note the peak time and elevation: above 40 degrees is a commanding pass; above 70, it goes nearly overhead.
  3. 3Be outside a minute early, looking toward the horizon the station rises from — it appears as a steady, fast, silent light that does not blink.
  4. 4The whole crossing takes a few minutes; the table's rise and set times are the window, bisected from the orbital model to the second.
  5. 5Clouded out? The table runs 72 hours ahead — the next visible pass is rarely more than a couple of days away.

ISS passes — FAQ

How are these pass times computed?+
From the station's own orbital elements. WorldEye fetches the ISS's current two-line element set (TLE) from CelesTrak — the same feed that drives the satellites layer on the globe — and propagates it with SGP4, the standard orbital model, converting each future position into rise, peak and set times for the city's coordinates. There is no scraped schedule and no approximation beyond the model itself; each city page prints the TLE's epoch and the time its table was computed, so a prediction is never presented as fresher than the elements behind it.
What counts as a pass?+
The station rising above 10 degrees of elevation — below that, haze, rooftops and city glow hide it for most observers, whatever a timetable says. Every pass listed clears that bar, and the table gives the peak elevation so you can judge for yourself: a 15-degree pass is a low skim through the murk; an 80-degree pass goes nearly overhead and is unmissable in a dark sky.
When is a pass actually visible?+
Two things must coincide: your sky must be dark and the station must be in sunlight — a 420-kilometre-high sunlit station against a dark ground is what makes the ISS the third-brightest object in the sky. Every pass here is labelled with what it is: visible (dark sky, station lit), twilight, daylight, or eclipsed — a pass through Earth's shadow, which happens on roughly a third of orbits and is invisible however dark your sky is. The label is computed per pass from the sun's position, not guessed from the clock.
Why only 20 cities — and why is Stockholm not one?+
Two rules. A city needs a real camera page here, because these pages pair the passes with the city's live cameras. And the city must lie within the station's orbital band: the ISS is inclined 51.6 degrees, so poleward of that it never passes high — from Stockholm (59.3 degrees north, 349 cameras in the directory) it never climbs above low southern murk, and a page promising passes 'over Stockholm' would be a false promise. The list stops where the orbit stops.
Are the pass pages free?+
Yes — the passes, the labels and every camera on the city pages are free to open on WorldEye, no account, no signup.

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