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Tonight’s sky in Cairo

A great night in Cairo, Egypt: dark from 18:26 until the Moon rises at 03:22. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, high in the south-east at 04:51. Saturn is high in the south at 21:35; the Andromeda Galaxy passes almost overhead at 21:35.

Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Cairo’s clock (GMT+2).

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

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at

When it is dark

Sunset
Dark from
Dark until
Sunrise
Hours of darkness10 h 25 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 12% lit. It rises at 03:22. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

PlanetWell upBestWhere
Saturn – 61° up in the south
Jupiter – 59° up in the south-east
Mars – 63° up in the south-east
Uranus · binoculars or a telescope – 81° up in the south
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope – 59° up in the south
Venus – 1° up in the east

Best to look at

  1. Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 62° up in the south-east.
  2. Saturn, at : 61° up in the south.
  3. Andromeda Galaxy, at : 79° up in the north.

The week ahead

NightDarkMoonSky
Thu 5 Nov – Moon only 12% lit Dark
Fri 6 Nov – Moon only 6% 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 12% lit Dark

The nearest city with a page of its own: tonight in Amman, Jordan.

How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Cairo at 30.04°N, 31.24°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.

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