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The night sky over Los Angeles

Every sky on this page is computed for Los Angeles'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 Los Angeles

Moon

Last quarter

55% illuminated

Moonrise / moonset

10:06 PM – 12:26 PM

Up around 21:00 local

  • M45 — Pleiades15° up
  • M31 — Andromeda56° up
  • M24 — Milky Way patch16° up
  • M2518° up

Computed for October 2, 2026. Local time is estimated from Los Angeles'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.

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The sky from 34° north

From Los Angeles the north celestial pole, marked by Polaris, stands 34° above the horizon. Over a year 91% of the celestial sphere clears that horizon; the rest never does, at any hour or season.

Never sets
Cepheus, Ursa Minor, and Cassiopeia circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Never rises
Pavo, Musca, Tucana, Volans, Chamaeleon, Hydrus, and 7 more stay below Los Angeles's horizon permanently.

Geometric horizon, at 34.05°, -118.24°. 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 Los Angeles does — however far away they are.

Near Los Angeles

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

Nights worth naming

Each one opens the free generator with Los Angeles 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.