Can I see Starlink tonight in Madurai, Tamil Nadu?

Only faint passes tonight.

Best: 4:52 am looking south-southeast, about magnitude 5. You will need a dark sky away from city lights.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 18:36 UTCTimes in local time (IST)9.92°, 78.12°

Tonight's best pass

Appears

4:52 am

south-southeast, 12°

Highest

4:57 am

14° south

Fades

4:57 am

south-southeast, 10°

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 4 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

4 visible passes

4 pm6 pm8 pm10 pmmidnight2 am4 am6 am8 am

Tonight

Thu 8 Oct

Fri 9 Oct

Sat 10 Oct

Sun 11 Oct

Mon 12 Oct

Tue 13 Oct

Wed 14 Oct

dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:26 pm – 5:44 am

4:52 amto 4:57 am · 6 min

SSE → SSE, highest 14° Sappears south-southeast at 12°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 4

5:05 amto 5:22 am · 17 min

SSW → S, highest 14° SSWappears south-southwest at 14°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 17

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:26 pm – 5:44 am

6:25 pmto 6:28 pm · 3 min

NW → NE, highest 42° NNWappears northwest at 41°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:25 pm – 5:44 am

6:25 pmto 6:40 pm · 16 min

NW → NNE, highest 20° NNWappears northwest at 20°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 17

Saturday 10 Oct – Wednesday 14 Oct

no visible passes

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.

Seeing Starlink from Madurai

Madurai is at 9.9°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:26 pm until 5:44 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 4 visible passes (2 in the evening, 2 before dawn); 1 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 8 Oct at 6:25 pm: it appears in the northwest, climbs to 42° in the north-northwest and fades in the northeast at about magnitude 3.5.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–316 km up): 4 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Madurai?

Only faint passes tonight. Best: 4:52 am looking south-southeast, about magnitude 5. You will need a dark sky away from city lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Madurai?

Thursday 8 Oct at 4:52 am: 4 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southeast and reaching 14°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Madurai?

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

Nearby cities

All of Tamil Nadu →

Tiruchirappalli 118 km Thoothukudi 128 km Tirunelveli 141 km Tiruppur 157 km Erode 164 km Coimbatore 175 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Madurai →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Friday 9 Oct at 5:04 am, looking southeast. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Before you go out

ISS tonight in Madurai How to spot Starlink What the Starlink train is Why some nights have nothing