Australia · Visible passes
From Sydney (33.87° S, 151.21° E) 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 Sydney it can pass high overhead. China’s Tiangong station (orbit up to 41.5°) can also pass high over Sydney.
Times in the list are shown in your device’s time zone (Sydney is on Australian Eastern Time).
Open the full tracker for Sydney · The ISS from Sydney · Tiangong from Sydney
Calculated live for Sydney 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 Sydney 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 Sydney. 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 Sydney.