Meteor showers

Eta Aquariids 2027

The Eta Aquariids are active from 19 April to 28 May and peak on 6 May 2027, 15:08 UTC. Under a dark sky with the radiant overhead up to about 50 meteors an hour can be seen. At the peak the moon is 0% lit. They enter the atmosphere at 66 km/s; the stream comes from 1P/Halley.

Peak: 6 May 2027 · 15:08 UTC
Meteors an hour (ZHR): 50
Speed: 66 km/s
Radiant height: RA 22h32m · Dec -1°
Parent body: 1P/Halley
Moon at the peak: 0%

Year	Peak (UTC)	Moon at the peak
2027	6 May 2027 15:08	0%
2028	5 May 2028 21:17	89%
2029	6 May 2029 03:33	43%
2030	6 May 2030 09:31	12%
2031	6 May 2031 15:42	100%

Best time · 2027

Country	Town	Best time	Radiant height	Expected per hour
Burundi	Gitega	7 May 05:08	54°	40
Kenya	Nairobi	7 May 05:38	53°	40
Madagascar	Antananarivo	7 May 05:08	52°	40
Samoa	Apia	6 May 05:38	52°	40
Vanuatu	Port Vila	6 May 05:08	53°	40
Angola	Luanda	6 May 05:08	50°	39
Bolivia	Sucre	6 May 05:38	52°	39
Comoros	Moroni	7 May 05:08	51°	39
East Timor	Dili	6 May 05:38	51°	39
South Africa	Pretoria	6 May 05:38	51°	39
Tanzania	Dodoma	7 May 05:38	52°	39
Tuvalu	Funafuti	6 May 05:08	52°	39
Zimbabwe	Harare	7 May 05:08	52°	39
Botswana	Gaborone	6 May 05:38	50°	38
Cameroon	Yaoundé	6 May 05:08	49°	38
Ecuador	Quito	6 May 05:08	50°	38
Fiji	Suva	6 May 05:08	49°	38
Liberia	Monrovia	6 May 05:38	49°	38
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	6 May 06:08	50°	38
Mozambique	Maputo	7 May 05:08	49°	38
Namibia	Windhoek	6 May 06:08	50°	38
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	6 May 05:08	50°	38
Paraguay	Asunción	6 May 06:08	49°	38
Peru	Lima	6 May 05:08	50°	38
Seychelles	Victoria	7 May 05:08	49°	38
Uganda	Kampala	7 May 05:38	49°	38
Zambia	Lusaka	7 May 05:08	50°	38
Benin	Porto-Novo	6 May 05:38	47°	37
Brazil	Brasília	6 May 05:08	48°	37
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	6 May 05:08	48°	37
Central African Republic	Bangui	6 May 04:38	49°	37
Eswatini	Mbabane	7 May 05:08	48°	37
Gabon	Libreville	6 May 05:08	47°	37
Indonesia	Jakarta	6 May 04:38	48°	37
Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	6 May 05:08	47°	37
Lesotho	Maseru	6 May 05:38	48°	37
Malawi	Lilongwe	7 May 04:38	48°	37
Mauritius	Port Louis	7 May 05:08	48°	37
Nauru	Yaren	6 May 05:38	48°	37
Panama	Panama City	6 May 05:08	48°	37
Solomon Islands	Honiara	6 May 05:08	48°	37
South Sudan	Juba	7 May 04:38	47°	37
Australia	Canberra	6 May 05:38	46°	36
Chile	Santiago	6 May 06:08	45°	36
Colombia	Bogotá	6 May 04:38	46°	36
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	6 May 04:38	46°	36
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	6 May 05:08	46°	36
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	7 May 05:08	46°	36
Guinea	Conakry	6 May 05:38	46°	36
Guyana	Georgetown	6 May 04:38	47°	36
Kiribati	Teaoraereke Village	6 May 05:08	46°	36
Micronesia	Palikir	6 May 05:08	46°	36
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	6 May 04:38	46°	36
Rwanda	Kigali	7 May 04:38	46°	36
Sierra Leone	Freetown	6 May 05:38	46°	36
Somalia	Mogadishu	7 May 04:38	46°	36
Togo	Lomé	6 May 04:38	46°	36
Tonga	Nukuʻalofa	6 May 05:38	47°	36
Barbados	Bridgetown	6 May 04:38	44°	35
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	6 May 04:38	45°	35
Chad	N'Djamena	6 May 04:38	44°	35
El Salvador	San Salvador	6 May 04:38	44°	35
Ghana	Accra	6 May 04:38	45°	35
Maldives	Malé	6 May 04:38	44°	35
Marshall Islands	Majuro	6 May 05:08	44°	35
Nigeria	Abuja	6 May 05:08	44°	35
Palau	Koror	6 May 04:38	45°	35
Philippines	Manila	6 May 04:38	45°	35
São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	6 May 04:08	45°	35
Singapore	Singapore	6 May 05:38	45°	35
Uruguay	Montevideo	6 May 06:08	44°	35
Venezuela	Caracas	6 May 05:08	45°	35
Argentina	Buenos Aires	6 May 06:08	43°	34
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	6 May 04:38	42°	34
Cape Verde	Praia	6 May 05:08	42°	34
Costa Rica	San José	6 May 04:08	43°	34
Djibouti	Djibouti	7 May 04:38	43°	34
Grenada	St. George's	6 May 04:38	42°	34
Guatemala	Guatemala City	6 May 04:38	43°	34
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	6 May 05:38	43°	34
Mali	Bamako	6 May 05:08	43°	34
New Zealand	Wellington	6 May 06:08	43°	34
Saint Lucia	Castries	6 May 04:38	43°	34
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	6 May 04:38	43°	34
Sri Lanka	Colombo	6 May 04:38	43°	34
Suriname	Paramaribo	6 May 05:08	42°	34
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	6 May 04:38	43°	34
Yemen	Sanaa	7 May 04:38	43°	34
Antigua and Barbuda	St. John's	6 May 04:38	41°	33
Dominica	Roseau	6 May 04:38	42°	33
Gambia	Banjul	6 May 05:38	42°	33
Jamaica	Kingston	6 May 04:38	41°	33
Laos	Vientiane	6 May 04:38	41°	33
Mauritania	Nouakchott	6 May 05:38	41°	33
Myanmar	Naypyidaw	6 May 04:38	41°	33
Senegal	Dakar	6 May 05:38	41°	33
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	6 May 05:08	40°	32
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	6 May 04:08	39°	32
Mexico	Mexico City	6 May 05:08	40°	32
Nicaragua	Managua	6 May 04:08	40°	32
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	6 May 04:38	40°	32
Sudan	Khartoum	7 May 04:08	39°	32
Thailand	Bangkok	6 May 04:38	40°	32
Eritrea	Asmara	7 May 04:38	38°	31
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	6 May 05:08	38°	31
Niger	Niamey	6 May 05:08	38°	31
Belize	Belmopan	6 May 04:08	37°	30
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	7 May 04:08	36°	29
Taiwan	Taipei	6 May 04:08	35°	29
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	7 May 04:38	36°	29
Vietnam	Hanoi	6 May 04:08	36°	29
Bangladesh	Dhaka	6 May 04:08	35°	28
Cuba	Havana	6 May 05:38	34°	28
Bhutan	Thimphu	6 May 04:08	33°	27
Egypt	Cairo	7 May 05:08	33°	27
Oman	Muscat	7 May 04:08	33°	27
Qatar	Doha	7 May 03:38	33°	27
Bahamas	Nassau	6 May 05:08	31°	26
Bahrain	Manama	7 May 03:38	32°	26
Iraq	Baghdad	6 May 04:08	30°	25
Israel	Jerusalem	7 May 04:38	30°	25
Jordan	Amman	7 May 04:38	30°	25
Libya	Tripoli	7 May 05:08	30°	25
Palestine	Giv'at Ze'ev	7 May 04:38	30°	25
Syria	Damascus	7 May 04:38	30°	25
India	New Delhi	6 May 04:08	28°	24
Kuwait	Kuwait City	7 May 03:38	29°	24
Lebanon	Beirut	7 May 04:38	29°	24
Nepal	Kathmandu	6 May 03:53	29°	24
Pakistan	Islamabad	6 May 04:08	29°	24
Cyprus	Nicosia	7 May 04:38	27°	23
Japan	Tokyo	6 May 03:38	28°	23
Afghanistan	Kabul	6 May 03:38	26°	22
Algeria	Algiers	6 May 04:38	26°	22
Tunisia	Tunis	7 May 04:08	26°	22
Greece	Athens	7 May 05:08	24°	21
Morocco	Rabat	6 May 04:08	25°	21
Iran	Tehran	7 May 03:38	23°	20
Malta	Valletta	7 May 04:38	24°	20
South Korea	Seoul	6 May 04:08	23°	20
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	6 May 04:08	24°	20
Armenia	Yerevan	7 May 04:38	22°	19
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	6 May 04:38	22°	19
United States	Washington	6 May 04:38	21°	18
Azerbaijan	Baku	7 May 04:08	21°	18
Georgia	Tbilisi	6 May 04:38	21°	18
Kosovo	Pristina	7 May 04:08	21°	18
North Korea	Pyongyang	6 May 04:08	22°	18
North Macedonia	Skopje	7 May 04:08	21°	18
Portugal	Lisbon	6 May 05:08	21°	18
Albania	Tirana	7 May 04:08	20°	17
China	Beijing	6 May 03:38	20°	17
Italy	Rome	7 May 04:38	20°	17
Montenegro	Podgorica	7 May 04:08	20°	17
Spain	Madrid	7 May 05:38	20°	17
Türkiye	Ankara	7 May 04:08	19°	17
Vatican City	Vatican City	7 May 04:38	20°	17
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	7 May 04:08	18°	16
Romania	Bucharest	7 May 04:38	18°	16
San Marino	San Marino	6 May 04:38	19°	16
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	6 May 03:38	18°	16
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	7 May 05:08	18°	15
Bulgaria	Sofia	7 May 04:38	17°	15
Croatia	Zagreb	7 May 04:08	16°	14
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	6 May 04:08	16°	14
Monaco	Monaco	7 May 04:38	16°	14
Canada	Ottawa	6 May 04:08	15°	13
Serbia	Belgrade	7 May 03:38	15°	13
Slovenia	Ljubljana	7 May 04:08	15°	13
Switzerland	Bern	7 May 04:38	15°	13
Moldova	Chișinău	7 May 04:08	14°	12
Hungary	Budapest	7 May 03:38	13°	11
France	Paris	7 May 04:38	11°	10
Liechtenstein	Vaduz	7 May 04:08	12°	10
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	6 May 03:38	11°	10
Slovakia	Bratislava	7 May 03:38	11°	10
Austria	Vienna	7 May 03:38	11°	9
Ukraine	Kyiv	7 May 03:38	10°	9
Czechia	Prague	7 May 03:38	9°	8
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	7 May 04:08	9°	8
United Kingdom	London	7 May 03:38	9°	8
Belgium	Brussels	7 May 04:08	8°	7
Germany	Berlin	7 May 03:38	8°	7
Netherlands	Amsterdam	7 May 04:08	8°	7
Poland	Warsaw	7 May 03:08	8°	7
Kazakhstan	Astana	6 May 02:38	7°	6
Ireland	Dublin	7 May 03:38	5°	5
Lithuania	Vilnius	6 May 03:38	5°	5
Belarus	Minsk	7 May 03:08	3°	3
Denmark	Copenhagen	7 May 03:08	3°	3
Russia	Moscow	5 May 02:38	4°	3
Latvia	Riga	7 May 03:08	1°	1
Estonia	Tallinn	–	below the horizon	0
Finland	Helsinki	–	below the horizon	0
Iceland	Reykjavík	–	below the horizon	0
Norway	Oslo	–	below the horizon	0
Sweden	Stockholm	–	below the horizon	0

How it is calculated

Eclipses, moonrise and moonset and the phases are computed for each place from the positions of the sun and the moon (VSOP87 and ELP theories, accurate to about a minute of arc). Times are local; the height of the sun or moon is above the place's horizon.

Meteor rates assume a dark sky: city lights and haze lower them a lot. The expected number per hour counts the radiant's height and the moon's light at the best hour of the peak night.