Skies by city / Panama
The night sky over Panama City
Every sky on this page is computed for Panama City'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 Panama City
Moon
Last quarter
56% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
11:30 PM – 11:37 AM
Up around 21:00 local
- M7 — Ptolemy’s Cluster23° up
- M31 — Andromeda37° up
- M6 — Butterfly Cluster22° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch35° up
Computed for October 2, 2026. Local time is estimated from Panama City's longitude rather than a timezone database — accurate to within about an hour almost everywhere.
The sky from 9° north
From Panama City the north celestial pole, marked by Polaris, stands 9° above the horizon. Panama City 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 Panama City can see also goes down again before morning.
- Never rises
- Nothing — every constellation rises over Panama City at some point in the year.
Geometric horizon, at 8.97°, -79.53°. 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 Panama City — however far away they are.
- Addis Ababasame latitude
- Abuja0.1° apart
- Ho Chi Minh City1.8° apart
- Colombo2° apart
- Lagos2.5° apart
Nights worth naming
Each one opens the free generator with Panama City 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.