Satellites Visible Tonight from Rishikesh

Satellites visible from Rishikesh (30.0869°N, 78.2676°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.

Rishikesh sits in the Ganga gorge at the foot of the Himalaya, about 34 km south-east of Dehradun. Steep, forested hills close in on both banks, so the sky is a strip above the river, darkest upstream towards Shivpuri.

When the sky works in Rishikesh

The monsoon is heavy from July to September and the river runs high. October to March are the dry months, and October and November bring the cleanest air.

Darker skies near Rishikesh

The riverside camps around Shivpuri, about 16 km upstream, sit in a dark, narrow valley.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Haridwar, Dehradun.

Which satellites are visible from Rishikesh?

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.