Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Kolkata, West Bengal?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:03 pm, looking south-southwest.

Updated Times in local time (IST)22.56°, 88.36°
Also tonight over Kolkata
Space station (ISS)Not tonightNext: Monday 12 Oct at 4:22 amTiangong (China's station)Not tonightNext: Tuesday 13 Oct at 4:35 am
Next pass · Thursday 8 Oct
Appears
6:03 pm
south-southwest, 11°
Highest
6:29 pm
33° south
Fades
6:29 pm
southeast, 20°
NESW
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

21 visible passes
dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 5:42 pm – 5:07 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 5:41 pm – 5:08 am
5:46 pmto 5:57 pm · 10 min
S → ESE, highest 18° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 4
6:03 pmto 6:29 pm · 26 min
SSW → SE, highest 33° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

Friday 9 Oct

dark 5:40 pm – 5:08 am
5:52 pmto 5:56 pm · 5 min
SW → E, highest 34° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2
5:59 pmto 6:03 pm · 4 min
SW → E, highest 41° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:05 pmto 6:09 pm · 4 min
SW → E, highest 48° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:17 pmto 6:42 pm · 25 min
WSW → ESE, highest 79° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 5:39 pm – 5:08 am
5:58 pmto 6:02 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 83° ENEappears west-southwest at 13°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2 · brightTrain · 2
6:11 pmto 6:15 pm · 3 min
WSW → NE, highest 68° Nappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:20 pmto 6:23 pm · 3 min
W → NNE, highest 59° Nappears west at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:33 pmto 6:54 pm · 21 min
W → NW, highest 44° NWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 5:38 pm – 5:09 am
6:05 pmto 6:09 pm · 4 min
W → NE, highest 39° NNWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
6:26 pmto 6:28 pm · 2 min
W → NNW, highest 31° NNWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:37 pmto 6:39 pm · 2 min
WNW → NW, highest 26° NWappears west-northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Monday 12 Oct

dark 5:37 pm – 5:09 am
5:37 pmto 5:57 pm · 21 min
W → NE, highest 42° NNWappears west at 14°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
6:12 pmto 6:15 pm · 3 min
WNW → NNE, highest 23° Nappears west-northwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 5:36 pm – 5:09 am
5:38 pmto 5:43 pm · 5 min
WNW → NE, highest 27° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
5:49 pmto 6:21 pm · 32 min
WNW → NE, highest 23° Nappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 24

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 5:35 pm – 5:10 am
5:41 pmto 5:45 pm · 4 min
NW → NE, highest 19° Nappears northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
5:57 pmto 6:01 pm · 4 min
NW → NNE, highest 18° Nappears northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
6:03 pmto 6:16 pm · 13 min
NW → NNE, highest 17° Nappears northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 10
6:19 pmto 6:41 pm · 22 min
NW → N, highest 17° Nappears northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 14

Magnitude is an estimate (lower = brighter; 3 is easy, 5 needs a dark sky). Predictions for satellites that are still raising their orbits can shift by a few minutes from one update to the next; check again before you go out. How we compute this.

The ISS tonight

ISS pass times for Kolkata →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Monday 12 Oct at 4:22 am, looking south. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

2 visible passes in 8 nights

No visible pass of Tiangong over Kolkata tonight. Next: Tuesday 13 Oct at 4:35 am. It orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator, and looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky.

NightAppearsLookHighestMag ≈
Tuesday 13 Oct4:35 amnorth12° NNE1
Thursday 15 Oct4:14 amnorth23° NNE0

Local time. Brightness is a rough estimate (±1 magnitude; lower is brighter). How we compute this.

Seeing Starlink from Kolkata

Kolkata is at 22.6°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 5:42 pm until 5:07 am. A Starlink satellite only shows when it is still in sunlight while you are in darkness, so the passes bunch up in the first hours after dusk and the last hours before dawn, not around midnight. Over the next 8 nights we found 21 visible passes (21 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 14 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Saturday 10 Oct at 5:58 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 83° in the east-northeast and fades in the east-northeast at about magnitude 2.

The passes come from these launches:

Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Kolkata while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Kolkata?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:03 pm, looking south-southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Kolkata?

Thursday 8 Oct at 5:46 pm: 4 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 18°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Kolkata?

This week most passes appear in the west or west-northwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.

Nearby cities

All of West Bengal →
Howrah 5 kmKamarhati 12 kmMaheshtala 13 kmPanihati 14 kmRajpur Sonarpur 16 kmShyamnagar 30 km

Before you go out

ISS tonight in KolkataHow to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing