Satellites Visible Tonight from Siliguri

Satellites visible from Siliguri (26.7271°N, 88.3953°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.

Siliguri sits at the foot of the Darjeeling hills on the Mahananda, guarding the narrow Siliguri Corridor that links the North-East with the rest of India. The hills rise abruptly to the north, while the plain to the south is flat tea and farm country.

When the sky works in Siliguri

The Darjeeling foothills draw a long, wet monsoon from June to September. Between October and March the air clears, and some winter mornings show the Kanchenjunga range to the north.

Darker skies near Siliguri

Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, just north of the city on the first hills, is forested and dark.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Darjeeling, Gangtok.

Which satellites are visible from Siliguri?

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.