Can I see Starlink tonight in San Jose, CA?

No visible passes tonight.

Next chance, faint: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:36 pm, looking south-southwest.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 16:02 UTCTimes in local time (PDT)37.34°, -121.89°

Next pass · Monday, Oct 12

Appears

7:36 pm

south-southwest, 11°

Highest

7:38 pm

14° south-southeast

Fades

7:38 pm

south-southeast, 13°

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

6 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 7:08 pm – 6:43 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Sunday, Oct 11

no visible passes

Monday, Oct 12

dark 7:01 pm – 6:47 am

7:36 pmto 7:38 pm · 2 min

SSW → SSE, highest 14° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 7:00 pm – 6:48 am

7:06 pmto 7:36 pm · 30 min

SSW → SE, highest 18° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 24

7:49 pmto 7:51 pm · 2 min

SW → S, highest 18° Sappears southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 6:58 pm – 6:49 am

7:03 pmto 7:07 pm · 4 min

SSW → SE, highest 17° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

7:21 pmto 7:58 pm · 37 min

SW → SE, highest 21° Sappears southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 24

8:02 pmto 8:04 pm · 1 min

SW → SSW, highest 18° SSWappears southwest at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

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 San Jose

San Jose is at 37.3°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:08 pm until 6:43 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 6 visible passes (6 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 0 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:21 pm: it appears in the southwest, climbs to 21° in the south and fades in the southeast at about magnitude 4.5.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–315 km up): 6 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in San Jose?

No visible passes tonight. Next chance, faint: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:36 pm, looking south-southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over San Jose?

Monday, Oct 12 at 7:36 pm: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southwest and reaching 14°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from San Jose?

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

Nearby cities

All of California →

Santa Clara 6 km Sunnyvale 13 km Fremont 25 km Hayward 40 km Santa Cruz 42 km San Mateo 45 km

Before you go out

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