United States · Visible passes
From New York (40.71° N, 74.01° 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 New York it can pass high overhead. China’s Tiangong station (orbit up to 41.5°) can also pass high over New York.
Times in the list are shown in your device’s time zone (New York is on Eastern Time).
Open the full tracker for New York · The ISS from New York · Tiangong from New York
Calculated live for New York 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 New York 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 New York. It looks like a steady, non-blinking star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
China’s Tiangong station (orbit up to 41.5°) can also pass high over New York.