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← Geminids meteor shower 2027

Mon, Dec 13

Geminids meteor shower 2027 from Winston-Salem

Best 9:05 PM–6:05 AM (radiant up to 87°).

Up to about 150 meteors an hour under a perfectly dark sky. The Moon is 99% lit on the peak night.

in 399 days 14 h

Times are local (EST).

"Worth looking up" alerts for Winston-Salem

One notification in the late afternoon, only on nights with something worth going out for over Winston-Salem: 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 Winston-Salem'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 150 an hour from a dark place, fewer this year in bright moonlight.

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.
Tonight's sky over Winston-Salem →

Other cities

  • High Point, NCBest 9:04 PM–6:04 AM (radiant up to 87°)
  • GreensboroBest 9:04 PM–6:04 AM (radiant up to 87°)
  • Concord, NCBest 9:07 PM–6:07 AM (radiant up to 88°)
  • CharlotteBest 9:08 PM–6:08 AM (radiant up to 88°)
  • DurhamBest 9:00 PM–6:00 AM (radiant up to 87°)
  • Cary, NCBest 9:00 PM–6:00 AM (radiant up to 87°)
  • Fayetteville, NCBest 9:00 PM–6:00 AM (radiant up to 88°)
  • RaleighBest 8:59 PM–5:59 AM (radiant up to 87°)
  • Columbia, SCBest 9:08 PM–6:08 AM (radiant up to 89°)
  • Wilmington, NCBest 8:56 PM–5:56 AM (radiant up to 89°)

Calculated with Astronomy Engine (MIT license).