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Tonight’s sky in Kunming

A great night in Kunming, China: dark from 19:44 until the Moon rises at 04:23. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, high in the east at 06:01. Saturn is high in the south at 22:41; the Andromeda Galaxy passes almost overhead at 22:56.

Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Kunming’s clock (GMT+8).

Open tonight’s plan for Kunming The live sky, ISS passes and the cloud forecast, with Kunming already chosen.
Tonight’s standout

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at

When it is dark

Sunset
Dark from
Dark until
Sunrise
Hours of darkness10 h 17 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 13% lit. It rises at 04:23. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

PlanetWell upBestWhere
Saturn – 66° up in the south
Jupiter – 59° up in the east
Mars – 63° up in the east
Uranus · binoculars or a telescope – 86° up in the south
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope – 64° up in the south
Venus – 18° up in the south-east

Best to look at

  1. Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 63° up in the east.
  2. Saturn, at : 66° up in the south.
  3. Andromeda Galaxy, at : 74° up in the north.

The week ahead

NightDarkMoonSky
Thu 5 Nov – Moon only 13% lit Dark
Fri 6 Nov – Moon only 7% lit Dark
Sat 7 Nov – Moon down all night Dark
Sun 8 Nov – Moon down all night Dark
Mon 9 Nov – Moon down all night Dark
Tue 10 Nov – Moon down all night Dark
Wed 11 Nov – Moon down all night Dark
Thu 12 Nov – Moon only 11% lit Dark

The nearest city with a page of its own: tonight in Lijiang, China.

How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Kunming at 25.04°N, 102.72°E, with a flat horizon and the light-pollution atlas’s estimate of its sky. Dark means the Sun 18° below the horizon; a planet counts once it is 10° up. The methods and their measured errors.

This night as JSON