South Padre Island, Texas, USA

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

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South Padre Island, Texas, USA

Meteor shower

Draconids

Best around 8:38 PM

Very LowExcellent
8:38 PM Dark enough
5:54 AM Too light
Estimate
A few/hour
from a dark spot here
Radiant climbs to
48°
Under a perfect sky
10/hour
Moonlight
30% lost
Speed
20 km/s

The estimate is how many you might really see from a dark spot here, allowing for how high the shower climbs and for moonlight. "Under a perfect sky" is the best case. The bar also counts the forecast cloud at the best time, so a clouded-out night sits at the bottom, as does rain on the radar now.

Best in the early evening, unlike most showers, which are best before dawn. Usually quiet, but it has produced storms of thousands an hour, in 1933 and 1946. Comes from comet Giacobini-Zinner.

That morning

Sunrise

7:24 AM

7:24 AM

7:00 AM Blue hour
7:24 AM Sunrise
7:54 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

7:08 PM

7:08 PM

Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sun's own times - they will not change.

6:37 PM Golden hour
7:08 PM Sunset
7:31 PM Blue hour ends

Moon

Full moon

100% lit

7:30 PM – 8:59 AM

ENE WNW
7:30 PM Moonrise
7:48 PM 4°
2:12 AM Highest, 79°
8:40 AM 4°
8:59 AM Moonset

Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.

Timetable

  • Morning blue hour 7:00 AM–7:24 AM
  • Morning best color 7:09 AM
  • Sunrise 7:24 AM
  • Morning golden hour 7:24 AM–7:54 AM
  • Moonset 7:51 AM
  • Evening golden hour 6:37 PM–7:08 PM
  • Sunset 7:08 PM
  • Evening blue hour 7:08 PM–7:31 PM
  • Evening best color 7:24 PM
  • Moonrise 7:30 PM
  • Fully dark 8:25 PM–6:07 AM
  • Dark, no Moon Not tonight - the Moon is up

Upcoming celestial events for South Padre Island, Texas, USA

Tiangong space station Brilliant pass, SW to NE, 85 deg up
Wed 21 Oct 2026 7:45 PM Orionids Active, around 15 an hour
Wed 21 Oct 2026 8:25 PM Tiangong space station Modest pass, WNW to NNW, 20 deg up
Thu 22 Oct 2026 8:23 PM Full Hunter's Moon Rises 6:24 PM in the ENE Sun 25 Oct 2026 6:24 PM Halloween Halloween night in South Padre Island - waning gibbous moon Sat 31 Oct 2026 6:00 PM Southern Taurids A few an hour
Wed 4 Nov 2026 7:14 PM Partial lunar eclipse 6% of the Moon in shadow
Tue 11 Jan 2028 10:13 PM Partial solar eclipse 21% of the Sun covered
Wed 26 Jan 2028 7:47 AM Partial solar eclipse 38.5% of the Sun covered
Sun 14 Jan 2029 10:47 AM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 101 minutes
Mon 25 Jun 2029 10:22 PM Partial solar eclipse 23.3% of the Sun covered
Fri 14 Nov 2031 4:26 PM Total lunar eclipse 98% of it above your horizon
Fri 7 Oct 2033 5:55 AM Partial lunar eclipse 1% of the Moon in shadow
Wed 27 Sep 2034 9:46 PM Total lunar eclipse 96% of it above your horizon
Wed 6 Aug 2036 9:51 PM Partial solar eclipse 66.8% of the Sun covered
Sat 12 Aug 2045 12:03 PM

Every celestial event, and where else to see it