Skies by city / Philippines
The night sky over Manila
Every sky on this page is computed for Manila'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 Manila
Moon
Waning gibbous
63% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
10:19 PM – 10:52 AM
Up around 21:00 local
- M7 — Ptolemy’s Cluster16° up
- M31 — Andromeda44° up
- M6 — Butterfly Cluster14° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch28° up
Computed for October 2, 2026. Local time is estimated from Manila's longitude rather than a timezone database — accurate to within about an hour almost everywhere.
The sky from 15° north
From Manila the north celestial pole, marked by Polaris, stands 15° above the horizon. Over a year 98% of the celestial sphere clears that horizon; the rest never does, at any hour or season.
- Never sets
- Nothing — every constellation Manila can see also goes down again before morning.
- Never rises
- Chamaeleon, Apus, and Octans stay below Manila's horizon permanently.
Geometric horizon, at 14.59°, 120.98°. 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 Manila — however far away they are.
Nights worth naming
Each one opens the free generator with Manila 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.