Skies by city / Qatar
The night sky over Doha
Every sky on this page is computed for Doha'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 Doha
Moon
Waning gibbous
60% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
9:42 PM – 11:10 AM
Up around 21:00 local
- M45 — Pleiades15° up
- M31 — Andromeda55° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch18° up
- M2520° up
Computed for October 2, 2026. Local time is estimated from Doha's longitude rather than a timezone database — accurate to within about an hour almost everywhere.
The sky from 25° north
From Doha the north celestial pole, marked by Polaris, stands 25° above the horizon. Over a year 95% of the celestial sphere clears that horizon; the rest never does, at any hour or season.
- Never sets
- Ursa Minor circles the pole all night, every night of the year.
- Never rises
- Musca, Volans, Chamaeleon, Apus, Mensa, and Octans stay below Doha's horizon permanently.
Geometric horizon, at 25.31°, 51.51°. 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
Circumpolar stars are fixed by latitude alone, so these see the same constellations never set as Doha does — however far away they are.
Near Doha
Close enough that the sky overhead is near enough identical on any given night.
- Manama137 km
- Abu Dhabi305 km
- Dubai371 km
- Riyadh489 km
- Kuwait City571 km
Nights worth naming
Each one opens the free generator with Doha 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.