Tonight · Nigeria
Tonight’s sky in Benin City
A great night in Benin City, Nigeria: dark from 19:28 until the Moon rises at 03:58. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, high in the east at 05:13. Saturn passes almost overhead at 22:17; the Orion Nebula passes almost overhead at 03:17.
Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Benin City’s clock (GMT+1).
Mars & Jupiter conjunction
Best atWhen it is dark
| Sunset | |
|---|---|
| Dark from | |
| Dark until | |
| Sunrise | |
| Hours of darkness | 9 h 44 min |
The Sun does not get 18° below the horizon here tonight, so the sky never goes fully dark: these are the darkest hours there are.
The Moon
Waning Crescent, 11% lit. It rises at 03:58. Every phase for the year ahead.
Planets
| Planet | Well up | Best | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | – | 85° up in the south | |
| Jupiter | – | 54° up in the east | |
| Mars | – | 57° up in the east | |
| Uranus · binoculars or a telescope | – | 75° up in the north | |
| Neptune · binoculars or a telescope | – | 83° up in the south | |
| Venus | – | 19° up in the east |
Best to look at
- Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 58° up in the east.
- Saturn, at : 85° up in the south.
- Orion Nebula, at : 78° up in the south.
The week ahead
| Night | Dark | Moon | Sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 5 Nov | – | Moon only 11% 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 only 7% lit | Dark |
| Thu 12 Nov | – | Moon only 12% lit | Dark |
Tonight here reads much as it does from Port Harcourt, Nigeria, whose page says it for both.
How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Benin City at 6.34°N, 5.63°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.