Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Surat, Gujarat?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 7:17 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (IST)21.20°, 72.83°
Also tonight over Surat
Space station (ISS)Not tonightNext: Saturday 10 Oct at 5:54 amTiangong (China's station)Not tonightNext: Tuesday 13 Oct at 6:08 am
Next pass · Thursday 8 Oct
Appears
7:17 pm
southwest, 11°
Highest
7:27 pm
46° south
Fades
7:27 pm
south-southeast, 37°
NESW
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 4 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:44 pm – 6:09 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:43 pm – 6:09 am
7:17 pmto 7:27 pm · 10 min
SW → SSE, highest 46° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 4
7:35 pmto 8:00 pm · 25 min
SW → SSW, highest 46° SSWappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 22

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:42 pm – 6:10 am
7:23 pmto 7:27 pm · 3 min
WSW → NNW, highest 78° NNWappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
7:31 pmto 7:33 pm · 3 min
WSW → NW, highest 65° NWappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:37 pmto 7:40 pm · 2 min
WSW → WNW, highest 50° WNWappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:49 pmto 8:08 pm · 19 min
W → W, highest 26° Wappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 18

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 6:42 pm – 6:10 am
6:41 pmto 6:54 pm · 13 min
ENE → ENE, highest 85° NNEappears east-northeast at 32°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 18
7:30 pmto 7:33 pm · 3 min
W → NNW, highest 33° NNWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
7:44 pmto 7:46 pm · 2 min
W → NW, highest 26° NWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:53 pmto 7:54 pm · 1 min
WNW → NW, highest 20° NWappears west-northwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 6:41 pm – 6:10 am
6:48 pmto 7:08 pm · 19 min
W → NE, highest 44° NNWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
7:37 pmto 7:39 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 19° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2

Monday 12 Oct

dark 6:40 pm – 6:11 am
6:39 pmto 6:43 pm · 4 min
WNW → NE, highest 29° NNWappears west-northwest at 19°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:52 pmto 6:57 pm · 5 min
WNW → NE, highest 26° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:09 pmto 7:29 pm · 20 min
WNW → NNE, highest 22° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 6:39 pm – 6:11 am
6:56 pmto 7:00 pm · 4 min
NW → NNE, highest 17° NNWappears northwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:12 pmto 7:15 pm · 3 min
NW → NNE, highest 16° Nappears northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 6:38 pm – 6:11 am
6:38 pmto 6:39 pm · 2 min
NNE → NNE, highest 17° Nappears north-northeast at 15°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 3

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 Surat →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Saturday 10 Oct at 5:54 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

3 visible passes in 8 nights

No visible pass of Tiangong over Surat tonight. Next: Tuesday 13 Oct at 6:08 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 Oct6:08 amnorth-northwest19° NNE0.5
Wednesday 14 Oct5:11 amnorth-northeast10° NNE1.5
Thursday 15 Oct5:46 amnorthwest40° NNE-1

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

Seeing Starlink from Surat

Surat is at 21.2°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:44 pm until 6:09 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 18 visible passes (18 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 9 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Saturday 10 Oct at 6:41 pm: it appears in the east-northeast, climbs to 85° in the north-northeast and fades in the east-northeast at about magnitude 2.5.

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 Surat while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Surat?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 7:17 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Surat?

Thursday 8 Oct at 7:17 pm: 4 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the southwest and reaching 46°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Surat?

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

Nearby cities

All of Gujarat →
Bilimora 49 kmBhavnagar 94 kmVadodara 129 kmNashik 167 kmMalegaon 191 kmVirar 193 km

Before you go out

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