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title: "ISS Tracker: Where Is the ISS Now? Live Map & Pass Times"
description: "Live ISS tracker: where the International Space Station is right now on a world map, its height and speed, and when you can see it pass over your town in the next 10 days. Also tracks Tiangong and Hubble."
url: https://getmylocations.com/iss-tracker
---

Free Tool · Live orbit map

# ISS tracker: where is the International Space Station now?

Follow the **International Space Station live** on a world map, with the place it is over, its height and its speed, and find out **when you can see it from your town**: every **visible pass** in the next 10 days with the time, direction and height in the sky. Switch to track China's **Tiangong** space station or the **Hubble Space Telescope**. Free, no signup.

## Where is the ISS now?

Over

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Height

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Speed

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One orbit

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  Blue: the next orbit · grey dashes: the last 45 minutes

### When can I see the ISS from my place?

Orbit data from [CelesTrak](https://celestrak.org/), positions calculated in your browser with the SGP4 model (satellite.js). Your location stays on your device.

## How to spot the space station

-   **Check the time and direction** in the table, and be outside a few minutes early.
-   **Look low in the direction it appears**; it rises from the horizon in a few seconds.
-   **It moves steadily** and does not blink. A blinking light is a plane.
-   **Higher passes are brighter**: anything above about 40° is easy to see, even from a city.
-   **No telescope needed.** Binoculars help a little, but a phone camera on a long exposure shows the trail best.

## ISS, Tiangong and Hubble compared

|  | International Space Station | Tiangong | Hubble |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Run by | US, Russia, Europe, Japan, Canada | China | NASA and ESA |
| Crewed | Yes, since November 2000 | Yes, since 2021 | No |
| Orbit inclination | 51.6° | About 41.5° | 28.5° |
| Seen from | Most inhabited places | Up to about 50° north and south | Only the tropics and subtropics |

The inclination sets how far north and south a craft travels. The ISS goes up to 51.6°, which is why it passes over London, Kyiv and Calgary but is seen only low in the sky from Scandinavia or Scotland’s far north. Hubble never rises high for anyone much beyond 35° north or south.

## Frequently asked questions

Where is the ISS right now?

The red dot on the map is the International Space Station now, updated every second, with the latitude and longitude it is over, its height and its speed. The blue line shows where it goes on its next orbit.

When can I see the ISS from my house?

Press "Passes over me" or search your town. The table lists every pass in the next 10 days when the station is lit by the sun while your sky is dark, with the time and direction it appears, how high it climbs and when it disappears.

What does the ISS look like in the sky?

A bright, steady white point moving smoothly across the sky in a few minutes, with no flashing lights. On a good pass it is brighter than any star. It often fades out before reaching the horizon as it enters the Earth's shadow.

Why can I only see it at dawn and dusk?

The station has no light of its own; you see sunlight reflected from it. That needs your sky to be dark while the station, 400 km up, is still in sunshine, which happens for an hour or two after sunset and before sunrise.

Why are there weeks with no visible passes?

The station's orbit slowly shifts, so for some weeks it passes your place only in daylight or in the middle of the night when it is in shadow. Visible passes then return in the evening or the morning.

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Written by

### Ahmed Anwar

Senior software engineer in Karachi. Builds the geolocation tools, mapping pages, and coordinate utilities on GetMyLocations. Writes about GPS, browser geolocation, and IP geolocation from the perspective of someone who ships the code, not the marketing.

This article was researched and drafted with AI assistance, then edited and fact-checked by Ahmed before publication. [More about the author](https://getmylocations.com/about).