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Tonight · Finland

Tonight’s sky in Helsinki

A great night in Helsinki, Finland: dark from 18:38 until the Moon rises at 04:16. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, in the south-east at 05:29. The Andromeda Galaxy passes almost overhead at 21:58; the Pleiades are high in the south at 01:13.

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

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

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at

When it is dark

Sunset
Dark from
Dark until
Sunrise
Hours of darkness10 h 51 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 12% lit. It rises at 04:16. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

PlanetWell upBestWhere
Jupiter – 40° up in the south-east
Saturn – 31° up in the south
Mars – 43° up in the south-east
Uranus · binoculars or a telescope – 51° up in the south
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope – 29° up in the south

Best to look at

  1. Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 42° up in the south-east.
  2. Andromeda Galaxy, at : 71° up in the south.
  3. Pleiades, at : 54° up in the south.

The week ahead

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

The nearest city with a page of its own: tonight in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Helsinki at 60.17°N, 24.94°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