Spain · Visible passes
From Gijón (43.54° N, 5.66° W) you can see the International Space Station with the naked eye whenever it crosses your night sky while still lit by the Sun, usually in the two hours after sunset or before sunrise.
The ISS orbit reaches latitudes up to 51.6° north and south, so from Gijón it can pass high overhead. China’s Tiangong station flies no further from the equator than 41.5°, so from Gijón it only appears low over the southern horizon.
Times in the list are shown in your device’s time zone (Gijón is on Central European Time).
Open the full tracker for Gijón · The ISS from Gijón · Tiangong from Gijón
Calculated live for Gijón every time you open this page.
Pass times change every day and depend on the station’s latest orbit, so this page calculates them live for Gijón when you open it: the list shows every naked-eye pass of the ISS, Tiangong and other bright satellites over the next 10 days, with direction, height, brightness and cloud forecast.
No. The ISS is one of the brightest objects in the night sky and is easy to see with the naked eye, even from a city like Gijón. It looks like a steady, non-blinking star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
China’s Tiangong station flies no further from the equator than 41.5°, so from Gijón it only appears low over the southern horizon.