Satellites Visible Tonight from Shimla

Satellites visible from Shimla (31.1048°N, 77.1734°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.

Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh, is strung along a ridge at about 2,200 m, with Jakhoo hill rising near 2,450 m above the Mall. The town's lights spill down every slope, but its height lifts it above the haze of the plains, and the ridges beyond are dark.

When the sky works in Shimla

The monsoon brings heavy rain from late June to September, and winter brings snow. October and November usually give Shimla its clearest, most stable skies.

Darker skies near Shimla

Narkanda, about 65 km further up the Hindustan-Tibet road at around 2,700 m, is far darker than Shimla.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Chandigarh, Mandi.

Which satellites are visible from Shimla?

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.