Satellites Visible Tonight from Kozhikode

Satellites visible from Kozhikode (11.2588°N, 75.7804°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.

Kozhikode lies on the Malabar coast about 329 km north-west of Thiruvananthapuram; Vasco da Gama landed at Kappad beach nearby in 1498. The Arabian Sea gives a clean western horizon, and the Western Ghats rise towards Wayanad in the east.

When the sky works in Kozhikode

The south-west monsoon brings very heavy rain from June to September. January to April are the driest months and the clearest.

Darker skies near Kozhikode

The Wayanad plateau, up the ghat road to the east at around 700 to 2,100 m, is cooler, higher and much darker.

Planetarium and astronomy clubs

Regional Science Centre and Planetarium in Kozhikode, part of the national science-museum network.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Kannur, Thrissur.

Which satellites are visible from Kozhikode?

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.