Can I see Starlink tonight in Houston, TX?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:42 pm, looking south-southwest.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 16:02 UTCTimes in local time (CDT)29.76°, -95.36°

Next pass · Saturday, Oct 10

Appears

7:42 pm

south-southwest, 11°

Highest

7:44 pm

23° south-southeast

Fades

7:45 pm

southeast, 19°

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

20 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 7:24 pm – 6:55 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8

no visible passes

Friday, Oct 9

dark 7:22 pm – 6:56 am

7:33 pmto 7:35 pm · 2 min

S → SE, highest 12° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

7:42 pmto 7:45 pm · 2 min

S → SE, highest 15° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

7:55 pmto 8:20 pm · 25 min

SSW → SSE, highest 21° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 7:21 pm – 6:56 am

7:30 pmto 7:35 pm · 4 min

SSW → ESE, highest 19° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2

7:42 pmto 7:45 pm · 3 min

SSW → SE, highest 23° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

7:57 pmto 8:00 pm · 3 min

SW → SE, highest 30° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

8:11 pmto 8:34 pm · 23 min

SW → S, highest 36° Sappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 7:20 pm – 6:57 am

7:19 pmto 7:21 pm · 3 min

SE → E, highest 27° SSEappears southeast at 23°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2

7:35 pmto 7:40 pm · 5 min

SW → ESE, highest 34° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2

7:53 pmto 7:56 pm · 3 min

WSW → SE, highest 44° SSEappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1

8:13 pmto 8:16 pm · 2 min

WSW → SW, highest 48° SWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

8:30 pmto 8:53 pm · 23 min

WSW → WSW, highest 30° WSWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Monday, Oct 12

dark 7:18 pm – 6:58 am

7:18 pmto 7:46 pm · 28 min

ESE → E, highest 59° SSEappears east-southeast at 29°, high at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24

8:05 pmto 8:08 pm · 3 min

WSW → SSE, highest 78° SSEappears west-southwest at 10°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1

8:31 pmto 8:33 pm · 2 min

W → W, highest 28° Wappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 7:17 pm – 6:58 am

7:17 pmto 7:19 pm · 3 min

SSE → E, highest 62° SSEappears south-southeast at 62°, high at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1

7:34 pmto 8:05 pm · 30 min

WSW → E, highest 87° ESEappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24

8:18 pmto 8:20 pm · 2 min

W → W, highest 48° Wappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 7:16 pm – 6:59 am

7:32 pmto 7:36 pm · 5 min

W → E, highest 80° NEappears west at 12°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1

7:50 pmto 8:26 pm · 36 min

W → ENE, highest 75° NNWappears west at 11°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2 · brightTrain · 24

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 Houston

Houston is at 29.8°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:24 pm until 6:55 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 20 visible passes (20 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 14 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:50 pm: it appears in the west, climbs to 75° in the north-northwest and fades in the east-northeast at about magnitude 2.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–315 km up): 20 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Houston?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:42 pm, looking south-southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Houston?

Friday, Oct 9 at 7:33 pm: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 12°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Houston?

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

Nearby cities

All of Texas →

Pasadena 17 km Pearland 23 km Cypress 40 km Beaumont 127 km College Station 134 km Lake Charles 214 km

Before you go out

How to spot Starlink What the Starlink train is Why some nights have nothing