Thu, Oct 8
Draconids meteor shower 2026 from Hanoi
Best 6:41 PM–9:11 PM (radiant up to 47°).
Up to about 10 meteors an hour under a perfectly dark sky. The Moon is 3% lit on the peak night.
This has passed
Times are local (GMT+7).
One notification in the late afternoon, only on nights with something worth going out for over Hanoi: a very bright ISS pass, a Starlink train, a meteor shower peak, planets together, a supermoon or eclipse, the northern lights, or a bright comet. Only the city is stored, not your location.
Put Hanoi's sky in your calendar
Full moons, meteor showers, eclipses and bright ISS passes (with a 10-minute reminder) appear in your calendar and update by themselves.
Plan your night
☁️ Clouds through the night
The hour-by-hour cloud forecast appears about five days before.
🌑 Find a dark sky
City light hides most of the show. Drive until the sky looks clearly darker (often 30–60 minutes out), away from streetlights, with an open view.
🛰️ Also crossing the sky that night
Bright ISS and Starlink passes during the best hours appear about five days before.
Shooting stars streak across the sky: up to about 10 an hour from a dark place.
How to watch
- Find a dark place away from city lights and give your eyes 20 minutes to adjust.
- Lie back and look at a wide part of the sky; you do not need to face the radiant.
- Rates are highest in the hours before dawn.
Other cities
- Da NangBest 6:32 PM–8:32 PM (radiant up to 43°)
- Hong KongBest 7:08 PM–9:53 PM (radiant up to 48°)
- BangkokBest 7:02 PM–8:47 PM (radiant up to 41°)
- Ho Chi Minh CityBest 6:38 PM–8:08 PM (radiant up to 38°)
- TaipeiBest 6:38 PM–9:23 PM (radiant up to 51°)
- ManilaBest 6:41 PM–8:41 PM (radiant up to 41°)
- KolkataBest 6:21 PM–9:06 PM (radiant up to 48°)
- Kuala LumpurBest 7:58 PM–8:43 PM (radiant up to 31°)
- ShanghaiBest 6:39 PM–10:09 PM (radiant up to 56°)
- SingaporeBest 7:49 PM–8:19 PM (radiant up to 30°)
Calculated with Astronomy Engine (MIT license).