Spain · Visible passes
From Santa Cruz de Tenerife (28.47° N, 16.25° 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife it can pass high overhead. China’s Tiangong station (orbit up to 41.5°) can also pass high over Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Times in the list are shown in your device’s time zone (Santa Cruz de Tenerife is on Western European Time).
Open the full tracker for Santa Cruz de Tenerife · The ISS from Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Tiangong from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Calculated live for Santa Cruz de Tenerife 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife.