Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Honolulu, HI?

Yes — best chance 6:59 pm, looking south-southwest.

It is the Starlink train: 22 satellites in a line. Visible from 6:59 pm to 7:25 pm, halfway up in the sky (34°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (HST)21.31°, -157.86°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
6:59 pm
south-southwest, 11°
Highest
7:25 pm
34° south
Fades
7:25 pm
southeast, 20°
NESW
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22 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, Oct 7

dark 6:36 pm – 6:02 am
6:44 pmto 6:53 pm · 9 min
S → ESE, highest 18° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 4
6:59 pmto 7:25 pm · 26 min
SSW → SE, highest 34° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

Thursday, Oct 8

dark 6:35 pm – 6:02 am
6:50 pmto 6:59 pm · 9 min
SW → E, highest 44° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 3
7:01 pmto 7:05 pm · 4 min
SW → E, highest 51° SSEappears southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:12 pmto 7:38 pm · 26 min
WSW → ESE, highest 84° SWappears west-southwest at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22

Friday, Oct 9

dark 6:35 pm – 6:03 am
6:56 pmto 7:01 pm · 5 min
WSW → ENE, highest 78° NWappears west-southwest at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
7:07 pmto 7:11 pm · 3 min
WSW → NE, highest 61° Nappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:15 pmto 7:18 pm · 3 min
W → NNE, highest 52° Nappears west at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:28 pmto 7:50 pm · 22 min
W → NW, highest 40° NWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 6:34 pm – 6:03 am
7:03 pmto 7:07 pm · 4 min
W → NNE, highest 33° NNWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
7:21 pmto 7:24 pm · 3 min
WNW → N, highest 27° Nappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:32 pmto 7:34 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 24° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 6:33 pm – 6:03 am
6:32 pmto 6:51 pm · 18 min
NW → NE, highest 38° NNWappears northwest at 37°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
7:10 pmto 7:13 pm · 3 min
WNW → N, highest 19° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2

Monday, Oct 12

dark 6:32 pm – 6:04 am
6:32 pmto 6:37 pm · 5 min
WNW → NE, highest 24° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:46 pmto 7:12 pm · 26 min
WNW → NNE, highest 20° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
7:17 pmto 7:19 pm · 2 min
NW → N, highest 14° Nappears northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 6:31 pm – 6:04 am
6:36 pmto 6:40 pm · 4 min
NW → NNE, highest 17° NNWappears northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

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 Honolulu

Honolulu is at 21.3°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:36 pm until 6:02 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); 11 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday, Oct 8 at 7:12 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 84° in the southwest and fades in the east-southeast 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 Honolulu while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Honolulu?

Yes — best chance 6:59 pm, looking south-southwest. It is the Starlink train: 22 satellites in a line. Visible from 6:59 pm to 7:25 pm, halfway up in the sky (34°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Honolulu?

Wednesday, Oct 7 at 6:44 pm: 4 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 18°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Honolulu?

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

Nearby cities

All of Hawaii →
Kahului 151 kmDaly City 3848 kmSanta Rosa 3853 kmSan Francisco 3854 kmSan Mateo 3854 kmSanta Cruz 3860 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Honolulu →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 5:53 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

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