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The night sky over San Jose

Every sky on this page is computed for San Jose'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 San Jose

Moon

Last quarter

56% illuminated

Moonrise / moonset

10:59 PM – 11:28 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 San Jose'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 14° north

From San Jose the north celestial pole, marked by Polaris, stands 14° above the horizon. Over a year 99% of the celestial sphere clears that horizon; the rest never does, at any hour or season.

Never sets
Nothing — every constellation San Jose can see also goes down again before morning.
Never rises
Chamaeleon, Apus, and Octans stay below San Jose's horizon permanently.

Geometric horizon, at 13.66°, -88.99°. 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 San Jose — however far away they are.

Near San Jose

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

Nights worth naming

Each one opens the free generator with San Jose 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.