Meteor showers happen many times each year, but the best dates and times depend on both the calendar and your location on Earth.
Key dates coming up
Some of the strongest annual showers for late 2025 and early 2026 are:
- Geminids: active early–mid December, with a strong peak around the nights of December 13–14.
- Ursids: smaller shower active around December 17–26, peaking near December 21–22.
- Quadrantids: brief but intense shower around January 3–4, active roughly December 28–January 12.
Best time of night
For almost all showers, the best viewing is late at night into the early hours of the morning, when the shower’s radiant is high in the sky and your part of Earth faces into the stream of meteoroids.
Rates usually climb after midnight and are often highest from roughly 1–3 a.m. local time, provided the Moon is not too bright.
How to find exact times for you
Because the ideal time depends on where you live and local moonrise/moonset, use an interactive meteor-shower calendar or sky map that lets you enter your city; these tools show peak nights and best viewing hours adjusted to your location.
Once you share your city or region, it is possible to give more precise “from–to” times for the next shower visible to you.