Tokyo, Japan

Friday, April 24, 2026

TODAY
Tokyo, Japan

Meteor shower

Lyrids

Active, around 6 an hour

Best around 3:21 AM

Radiant climbs to
86°
Under a perfect sky
18/hour
Moonlight
No interference
Speed
49 km/s

The rate at the top 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. Clouds are not counted here: check the sunset page for those.

Usually steady, but now and then it has a short burst of many more.

That morning

Sunrise

4:57 AM

4:57 AM

4:30 AM Blue hour, best color
4:57 AM Sunrise
5:32 AM Golden hour ends

Best color is when the sky has actually looked its best, learned from 25 camera photos of past sunrises here.

Sunset

6:21 PM

6:21 PM

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

5:46 PM Golden hour
6:21 PM Sunset
6:48 PM Blue hour ends

Milky Way

Milky Way

Washed out by city light

Visible from 1:34 AM

Very LowExcellent
Visible, no moon
1:34 AM to 3:23 AM
Where to look
Southern horizon, up to 25° above it
Highest at
3:14 AM
Sky fully dark
7:54 PM to 3:23 AM
Sky darkness
None
Cloud
Not forecast yet

The bright center of the Milky Way: when it is above the horizon with the sky fully dark and the Moon set, brought down for how dark the sky is here (estimated from the towns around by Walker's law) and for cloud where the forecast reaches.

Moon

First quarter

50% lit

10:51 AM – 1:27 AM

ENE WNW
10:51 AM Moonrise
11:14 AM 4°
6:13 PM Highest, 75°
1:06 AM 4°
1:27 AM Moonset

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

Timetable

  • Moonset 12:50 AM
  • Morning blue hour 4:30 AM–4:57 AM
  • Morning best color 4:32 AM
  • Sunrise 4:57 AM
  • Morning golden hour 4:57 AM–5:32 AM
  • Moonrise 10:52 AM
  • Evening golden hour 5:46 PM–6:21 PM
  • Evening best color 5:56 PM
  • Sunset 6:21 PM
  • Evening blue hour 6:21 PM–6:48 PM
  • Fully dark 7:54 PM–3:23 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 1:34 AM–3:23 AM
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Upcoming celestial events for Tokyo, Japan

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Mon 12 Oct 2026 4:23 AM International Space Station Modest pass, SSE to E, 13 deg up
Mon 12 Oct 2026 4:51 AM Milky Way Visible 6:35 PM to 7:35 PM with no moon, 16° above the southwestern horizon - 2 nights 12 Oct to 13 Oct
Mon 12 Oct 2026 6:35 PM Typhoon Koguma Outer clouds at most, passing to the southeast
Mon 12 Oct 2026 9:00 PM Orionids Around 17 an hour
Wed 21 Oct 2026 3:58 AM Hunter's Moon Rises 4:34 PM in the ENE Mon 26 Oct 2026 4:34 PM Partial lunar eclipse 38% of the Moon in shadow
Thu 6 Jul 2028 3:20 AM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 71 minutes
Sun 31 Dec 2028 1:51 AM Partial solar eclipse 72.6% of the Sun covered
Sat 1 Jun 2030 5:07 PM Partial lunar eclipse 93% of it above your horizon
Sat 15 Jun 2030 3:33 AM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 66 minutes
Sun 25 Apr 2032 12:13 AM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 46 minutes
Mon 18 Oct 2032 4:03 AM Partial solar eclipse 39.5% of the Sun covered
Wed 3 Nov 2032 3:35 PM Total lunar eclipse 79% of it above your horizon
Thu 14 Apr 2033 4:12 AM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 78 minutes
Sat 8 Oct 2033 7:55 PM Partial solar eclipse Totality here
Sun 2 Sep 2035 10:09 AM

Every celestial event, and where else to see it