Skies by city / New Zealand
The night sky over Wellington
Every sky on this page is computed for Wellington'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 Wellington
Moon
Last quarter
53% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
1:02 AM – 9:44 AM
Up around 21:00 local
- M7 — Ptolemy’s Cluster48° up
- M6 — Butterfly Cluster44° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch44° up
- M2547° up
Computed for October 3, 2026. Local time is estimated from Wellington's longitude rather than a timezone database — accurate to within about an hour almost everywhere.
The sky from 41° south
From Wellington the south celestial pole stands 41° above the horizon — the southern sky has no bright pole star to mark it. Over a year 88% of the celestial sphere clears that horizon; the rest never does, at any hour or season.
- Never sets
- Pavo, Dorado, Ara, Musca, Tucana, Volans, and 10 more circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
- Never rises
- Draco, Cepheus, Camelopardalis, Ursa Minor, and Cassiopeia stay below Wellington's horizon permanently.
Geometric horizon, at -41.29°, 174.78°. 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.
Nights worth naming
Each one opens the free generator with Wellington 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.