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The night sky over Xian

Every sky on this page is computed for Xian'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 Xian

Moon

Waning gibbous

63% illuminated

Moonrise / moonset

9:29 PM – 12:22 PM

Up around 21:00 local

  • M31 — Andromeda53° up
  • M24 — Milky Way patch18° up
  • M2519° up
  • M3980° up

Computed for October 2, 2026. Local time is estimated from Xian'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.

We send the poster either way — the box above is only for the occasional note, and never anything else.

The sky from 38° north

From Xian the north celestial pole, marked by Polaris, stands 38° above the horizon. Over a year 89% of the celestial sphere clears that horizon; the rest never does, at any hour or season.

Never sets
Cepheus, Camelopardalis, Ursa Minor, and Cassiopeia circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Never rises
Pavo, Musca, Tucana, Volans, Chamaeleon, Hydrus, and 7 more stay below Xian's horizon permanently.

Geometric horizon, at 38.19°, 116.12°. 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 Xian does — however far away they are.

Near Xian

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

Nights worth naming

Each one opens the free generator with Xian 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.