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The night sky over Colombo

Every sky on this page is computed for Colombo's own coordinates — the stars genuinely above the horizon, how high each one stands, and the moon's real phase and position. Not a stock star field with a place name printed on it.

Tonight over Colombo

Moon

Waning gibbous

61% illuminated

Moonrise / moonset

10:28 PM – 10:26 AM

Up around 21:00 local

  • M7 — Ptolemy’s Cluster18° up
  • M31 — Andromeda41° up
  • M6 — Butterfly Cluster16° up
  • M24 — Milky Way patch28° up

Computed for October 2, 2026. Local time is estimated from Colombo's longitude rather than a timezone database — accurate to within about an hour almost everywhere.

Print-ready PDF, free, drawn for these exact coordinates. We'll email it to you.

We send the poster either way — the box above is only for the occasional note, and never anything else.

The sky from 7° north

From Colombo the north celestial pole, marked by Polaris, stands 7° above the horizon. Colombo sits close enough to the equator that, given a year, effectively the whole sky comes into view — no constellation is permanently out of reach.

Never sets
Nothing — every constellation Colombo can see also goes down again before morning.
Never rises
Nothing — every constellation rises over Colombo at some point in the year.

Geometric horizon, at 6.94°, 79.85°. A figure counts as circumpolar only when all of it clears the pole distance, and hills, haze and city light will all take more of the sky than this arithmetic does.

Cities that share this sky

What is overhead is fixed by latitude, so these sit under the same band of sky as Colombo — however far away they are.

Near Colombo

Close enough that the sky overhead is near enough identical on any given night.

Nights worth naming

Each one opens the free generator with Colombo and that date already set — change either, or keep it and save the picture.

Looking for a different night — a birthday, an anniversary, the day you met? The free generator takes any date and any place, not just the ones listed here. For the moon on its own, which looked the same from everywhere on Earth that night, start from the moon phase calendar.