Can I see Starlink tonight in Surprise, AZ?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:07 pm, looking southwest.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 16:02 UTCTimes in local time (MST)33.63°, -112.33°

Next pass · Sunday, Oct 11

Appears

7:07 pm

southwest, 11°

Highest

7:11 pm

21° south

Fades

7:11 pm

south, 20°

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

15 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 6:31 pm – 6:04 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Friday, Oct 9

no visible passes

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 6:27 pm – 6:06 am

7:03 pmto 7:05 pm · 2 min

S → SSE, highest 13° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2

7:15 pmto 7:16 pm · 1 min

SSW → S, highest 15° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

7:29 pmto 7:31 pm · 1 min

SW → SSW, highest 16° SSWappears southwest at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 6:26 pm – 6:06 am

6:28 pmto 6:53 pm · 25 min

SSW → SE, highest 19° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

7:07 pmto 7:11 pm · 3 min

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

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2

7:25 pmto 7:27 pm · 1 min

SW → SSW, highest 20° SSWappears southwest at 12°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Monday, Oct 12

dark 6:25 pm – 6:07 am

6:28 pmto 6:33 pm · 4 min

SW → ESE, highest 21° SSEappears southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

6:47 pmto 7:16 pm · 29 min

SW → SE, highest 32° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 24

7:37 pmto 7:38 pm · 1 min

WSW → SW, highest 19° SWappears west-southwest at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 6:23 pm – 6:08 am

6:46 pmto 6:50 pm · 4 min

WSW → SE, highest 33° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

7:07 pmto 7:36 pm · 29 min

WSW → SSE, highest 40° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 24

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 6:22 pm – 6:09 am

6:21 pmto 6:26 pm · 5 min

SSW → ESE, highest 35° SSEappears south-southwest at 27°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 3

6:28 pmto 6:33 pm · 5 min

WSW → ESE, highest 35° Sappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

7:04 pmto 7:07 pm · 3 min

WSW → SSE, highest 41° Sappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

7:22 pmto 7:58 pm · 35 min

WSW → SW, highest 36° SWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 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 Surprise

Surprise is at 33.6°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:31 pm until 6:04 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 15 visible passes (15 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 8 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:04 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 41° in the south and fades in the south-southeast at about magnitude 3.5.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–315 km up): 15 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Surprise?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:07 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Surprise?

Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:03 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 13°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Surprise?

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

Nearby cities

All of Arizona →

Peoria 10 km Glendale 17 km Phoenix 31 km Scottsdale 42 km Tempe Junction 43 km Tempe 46 km

Before you go out

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