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The night sky over Nairobi

Every sky on this page is computed for Nairobi'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 Nairobi

Moon

Waning gibbous

60% illuminated

Moonrise / moonset

10:46 PM – 10:08 AM

Up around 21:00 local

  • M7 — Ptolemy’s Cluster21° up
  • M31 — Andromeda36° up
  • M6 — Butterfly Cluster19° up
  • M24 — Milky Way patch30° up

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

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The sky from 1° south

From Nairobi the south celestial pole stands 1° above the horizon — the southern sky has no bright pole star to mark it. Nairobi 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 Nairobi can see also goes down again before morning.
Never rises
Nothing — every constellation rises over Nairobi at some point in the year.

Geometric horizon, at -1.30°, 36.83°. 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 Nairobi — however far away they are.

Near Nairobi

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

Nights worth naming

Each one opens the free generator with Nairobi 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.