Satellites Visible Tonight from Gurugram

Satellites visible from Gurugram (28.4595°N, 77.0266°E) tonight, with the IST start time, direction, peak height and brightness of each pass. A pass is listed only when the satellite clears 10°, is sunlit, your sky is dark and it reaches about magnitude 4.5.

Gurugram stands at about 237 m where the Aravallis run out against the Delhi plain, and those ridges keep a band of forest dark: the Aravali Biodiversity Park, Damdama Lake and the Mangar Bani forest towards Faridabad. In 2022 Gurugram amateur astronomers began pushing for India's first International Dark Sky Place.

When the sky works in Gurugram

The monsoon usually breaks in the last week of June and leaves about 650 mm by September. Winter brings fog and Western Disturbance showers, and the clearest nights tend to follow once a rain-bearing system has passed.

Darker skies near Gurugram

The nearest truly dark site is Sariska in Rajasthan, roughly 180 km and three hours south-west by road, which has an astronomy resort with telescopes.

Planetarium and astronomy clubs

No planetarium in Gurugram; SPACE India runs astronomy sessions at city schools, and Nehru Planetarium in Delhi is the nearest dome.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Delhi, Faridabad, Noida.

Which satellites are visible from Gurugram?

The ISS is the brightest at magnitude -3 to -4, followed by China's Tiangong station, large Earth-observation satellites, spent rocket bodies and Starlink trains in the days after a launch. GPS and NavIC satellites orbit too high to see with the naked eye.