Can I see Starlink tonight in Cebu City?

Only faint passes tonight.

Best: 4:22 am looking south, about magnitude 5. You will need a dark sky away from city lights.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 18:36 UTCTimes in local time (PST)10.32°, 123.89°

Tonight's best pass

Appears

4:22 am

south, 13°

Highest

4:22 am

14° south

Fades

4:26 am

south-southeast, 11°

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 3 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, Oct 8

Fri, Oct 9

Sat, Oct 10

Sun, Oct 11

Mon, Oct 12

Tue, Oct 13

Wed, Oct 14

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 5:53 pm – 5:11 am

4:22 amto 4:26 am · 5 min

S → SSE, highest 14° Sappears south at 13°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 3

4:34 amto 4:51 am · 17 min

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

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 17

Thursday, Oct 8

dark 5:53 pm – 5:11 am

5:52 pmto 5:57 pm · 5 min

WSW → NE, highest 49° NWappears west-southwest at 18°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2

Friday, Oct 9

dark 5:52 pm – 5:11 am

5:51 pmto 6:09 pm · 18 min

N → NNE, highest 23° NNWappears north at 19°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 18

Saturday, Oct 10 – Wednesday, Oct 14

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 Cebu City

Cebu City is at 10.3°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 5:53 pm until 5:11 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, Oct 8 at 5:52 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 49° in the northwest and fades in the northeast at about magnitude 3.

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Cebu City?

Only faint passes tonight. Best: 4:22 am looking south, about magnitude 5. You will need a dark sky away from city lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Cebu City?

Thursday, Oct 8 at 4:22 am: 3 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 14°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Cebu City?

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

Nearby cities

All of Philippines →

Budta 351 km Malingao 357 km Davao 407 km Zamboanga 428 km Taguig 559 km Antipolo 566 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Cebu City →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 4:28 am, looking south-southwest. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Before you go out

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