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Tonight · Somalia

Tonight’s sky in Mogadishu

A great night in Mogadishu, Somalia: dark from 18:54 until the Moon rises at 03:13. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, high in the north-east at 04:29. Saturn passes almost overhead at 21:43; the Orion Nebula passes almost overhead at 02:28.

Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Mogadishu’s clock (GMT+3).

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

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at

When it is dark

Sunset
Dark from
Dark until
Sunrise
Hours of darkness9 h 35 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 12% lit. It rises at 03:13. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

PlanetWell upBestWhere
Saturn – 88° up in the south-west
Jupiter – 54° up in the east
Mars – 56° up in the north-east
Uranus – 71° up in the north
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope – 87° up in the south-west
Venus – 1° up in the east

Best to look at

  1. Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 56° up in the north-east.
  2. Saturn, at : 88° up in the south-west.
  3. Orion Nebula, at : 82° up in the south.

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 only 6% lit Dark
Thu 12 Nov – Moon only 12% lit Dark

The nearest city with a page of its own: tonight in Nairobi, Kenya.

How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Mogadishu at 2.05°N, 45.32°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