Skies by city / France
The night sky over Nice
Every sky on this page is computed for Nice'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 Nice
Moon
Waning gibbous
59% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
8:49 PM – 12:26 PM
Up around 21:00 local
- M45 — Pleiades20° up
- M31 — Andromeda62° up
- M3982° up
- M3442° up
Computed for October 2, 2026. Local time is estimated from Nice's longitude rather than a timezone database — accurate to within about an hour almost everywhere.
The sky from 43° north
From Nice the north celestial pole, marked by Polaris, stands 43° above the horizon. Over a year 86% of the celestial sphere clears that horizon; the rest never does, at any hour or season.
- Never sets
- Draco, Cepheus, Camelopardalis, Ursa Minor, and Cassiopeia circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
- Never rises
- Pavo, Dorado, Ara, Musca, Tucana, Volans, and 11 more stay below Nice's horizon permanently.
Geometric horizon, at 43.29°, 5.60°. 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 Nice does — however far away they are.
Nights worth naming
Each one opens the free generator with Nice 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.