Night sky over São Paulo
The page stands in São Paulo (23.6° S, 46.6° W) and looks up at tonight's sky over it: by day its clock starts at São Paulo's dusk, so the Moon, the planets and the bright stars are where they will be once it's dark there, with the satellites in sunlight crossing between them.
The list below says tonight over São Paulo in words, worked out as the page is served: sunset and when it gets dark on São Paulo's clock (America/Sao_Paulo), the Moon's phase and when it's up, and for each planet when it rises or sets, how high it climbs and where to face, with the next meteor shower.
Tonight over São Paulo, Mon 2 Nov
- Sunsets , dark from to , rises
- Moonlast quarter, 38% lit: rises in the ENE, 34° up in the NE by dawn
- Marsrises in the ENE, 37° up in the NE by dawn · magnitude 0.9, in Leo
- Jupiterrises in the ENE, 36° up in the NE by dawn · magnitude −2.0, in Leo
- Saturn43° up in the ENE at dusk, highest at , 65° up in the N, sets in the W · magnitude 0.4, in Cetus
- Not seen tonightMercury, Venus: below the horizon or too low while the sky is dark
- Leonidsthe next meteor shower, peaking around 17 Nov at up to 15 meteors an hour under a dark sky, best from anywhere, before dawn
Times on São Paulo's clock (GMT-3), worked out with astronomy-engine as this page was served.
How to read it
São Paulo sits almost on the Tropic of Capricorn, at 23.5° south, so the Sun stands directly overhead at the December solstice and the ecliptic’s planets pass high through the northern sky. The Southern Cross climbs high in the south on autumn and winter evenings, and the Magellanic Clouds circle lower down, though only skies well beyond the metro area are dark enough to show them.
Summer, December to March, is the rainy season, with afternoon storms that often leave the evening clear; winter, June to August, is dry but traps the city’s smog under temperature inversions. The Ibirapuera Planetarium has shown São Paulo the sky since 1957, and the Pico dos Dias Observatory stands in the Serra da Mantiqueira of southern Minas Gerais.
Questions
Where can you see the stars near São Paulo?
Up in the Serra da Mantiqueira, around Campos do Jordão and the hills toward Minas Gerais, or along the less built-up coast to the north. In the city, the planets and the brightest stars show from Ibirapuera Park or any high open ground.
Which is the best season to see the night sky in São Paulo?
Autumn, April and May, after the summer rains and before the winter smog: the air is clear, the nights cool, and the Southern Cross stands high in the south in the evening.
What planets can I see from São Paulo tonight?
The list above names them, with rise and set times on São Paulo’s clock and which way to look. From here the planets cross the northern sky, so face north to find the ones the list says are up.
Sources
The same view as a link: livex.earth/?clouds=0&radar=0&imerg=0&sats=featured&launches=0&aurora=0&storms=0&severe=0&fires=0&quakes=0&lightning=0&events=0&snow=0&tsunami=0&view=sky&lat=-23.55&lon=-46.63&tonight=1
Drag to look around, scroll to zoom. Settings live in the URL, so any view can be shared.
view | fixed · sunrel · orbit · moon · track |
track | what to follow: iss, tiangong, satgus (Mark Rober's Space Selfie satellite), launch, sunrise, moonrise |
lat, lon | viewer position (fixed) or offset from the subsolar point (sunrel) |
period, inc | orbit period (hours) and inclination (°) |
dist | viewer distance in Earth radii; 0 = orthographic |
mag, rot | size and rotation (°) |
wait | seconds between redraws (default 60) |
time, speed | ISO start time; clock multiplier |
clouds, lights, grid, markers, label | 0 or 1 |
borders | Country borders (Natural Earth), the disputed and undefined ones dashed, and once zoomed in, the countries’ names and the states’ and provinces’ lines, off by default (key B) |
terminator | The day–night line (Sun on the horizon), with the twilight band’s edges dashed: the Sun 6° up and 6° down, off by default (key Z) |
stars | 1, 0, or photo (dimmed like a camera exposed for sunlit Earth) |
sats | all (Starlink + named), featured, or 0 |
aurora, storms, fires, quakes | 0 hides that layer (keys A H F E) |
buoys, buoy | Buoys on the globe, off by default (key Shift+B); buoy=46026 opens that buoy’s window. Click a buoy to open it. |
meteors | The last day’s meteors (Global Meteor Network), recent fireballs and the coming close approaches (NASA/JPL), off by default (key Shift+M) |
iono | Ionosphere wash: tec electron content (GloTEC), drap HF radio absorption (D-RAP), or 0 (key Shift+I) |
lightning, events, snow | lightning, GDACS floods/wildfires/eruptions with NASA's flood map and USGS's US volcano alert levels, snow and ice (keys L D I) |
sst | Sea temperature: temp, anomaly (El Niño, marine heatwaves; 1 means this), or 0 (key O) |
lst | Land surface temperature (VIIRS, MODIS): auto the afternoon’s by day and the night’s by night (1 means this), day, night, or 0 (key Shift+K) |
soil | Soil moisture (SMAP L4): surface the top 5 cm (1 means this), root the root zone to 1 m, or 0 (key Shift+W) |
chl | Chlorophyll-a (MODIS Aqua, Terra), the last eight days: 1 or 0 (key Shift+O; off by default) |
aerosol | Aerosols: aod VIIRS optical depth (1 means this), index the OMPS UV aerosol index, smoke and dust, or 0 (key Shift+Y; off by default) |
waves, wavesrc | Wave height and direction (NOAA GFS-Wave, WAVEWATCH III) as trails that travel with the waves, coloured by height: 1 or 0 (off by default); folder holding its latest.json |
currents, currentsrc | Ocean surface currents (NASA OSCAR, a daily mean, two or three days behind) as trails carried by them, coloured by speed: 1 or 0 (off by default; key Q cycles waves → currents → both → off); folder holding its latest.json |
coral, coralsrc | Coral bleaching heat stress (NOAA Coral Reef Watch degree heating weeks), drawn within 35° of the equator: 1 or 0 (key Shift+R; off by default); folder holding its latest.json |
ash | volcanic ash: EUMETSAT's Ash RGB, and GDACS's eruptions in a window (key Shift+A; off by default) |
radar, smoke, tsunami | RainViewer radar, NOAA HMS smoke, NOAA tsunami alerts (keys R Y Shift+T) |
imagery | live GOES and MTG pictures by day, daily yesterday’s VIIRS when zoomed in, painted neither; with live or daily, the newest night’s lights when zoomed in (key Shift+P; the older truecolor=0/1 still works) |
severe | Severe weather: NWS warning polygons and the SPC day-1 outlook (US), MeteoAlarm's warnings (Europe) (key X) |
imerg | With the radar, satellite rain where there’s no radar: EUMETSAT H SAF (MTG) over Europe and Africa, NASA IMERG elsewhere (R’s middle step turns it off) |
relief | terrain lit by the real Sun, from NOAA ETOPO 2022 (key Shift+E); 0 shows NASA's fixed shaded relief |
reliefscale | terrain relief strength, 0.1–5 (default 1) |
isslive | NASA ISS telemetry panel: track (while tracking the ISS), 1 (always) or 0 (key Shift+L) |
isscam | 1 opens the camera in the ISS telemetry: the station from 120 m above, its solar arrays posed from the live telemetry, and the Earth below (the wheel zooms it, 30–120°) |
firehours | show fires detected within this many hours, 1–24 (default 12) |
launches | 0 hides launch mode (key U) |
bodies, bodyscale | Sun and Moon on/off; enlarge their discs (1 = true size) |
fps | 1 shows the frame-rate display (key ~) |
feeds | 1 shows the data-feeds dashboard: each source's last update and next check (key Shift+U) |
cloudsrc, satsrc | folders holding each latest.json |
