Meteor showers

Geminids 2026

The Geminids are active from 4 December to 20 December and peak on 14 December 2026, 13:26 UTC. Under a dark sky with the radiant overhead up to about 150 meteors an hour can be seen. At the peak the moon is 25% lit. They enter the atmosphere at 35 km/s; the stream comes from 3200 Phaethon.

Peak: 14 December 2026 · 13:26 UTC
Meteors an hour (ZHR): 150
Speed: 35 km/s
Radiant height: RA 7h28m · Dec +33°
Parent body: 3200 Phaethon
Moon at the peak: 25%

Year	Peak (UTC)	Moon at the peak
2026	14 December 2026 13:26	25%
2027	14 December 2027 19:38	98%
2028	14 December 2028 01:41	5%
2029	14 December 2029 07:48	65%
2030	14 December 2030 14:07	82%

Best time · 2026

Country	Town	Best time	Radiant height	Expected per hour
Afghanistan	Kabul	14 Dec 01:26	86°	150
United States	Washington	14 Dec 02:26	83°	149
Egypt	Cairo	14 Dec 01:26	85°	149
Greece	Athens	14 Dec 01:56	83°	149
India	New Delhi	14 Dec 01:56	84°	149
Iran	Tehran	14 Dec 01:26	83°	149
Iraq	Baghdad	14 Dec 01:26	84°	149
Israel	Jerusalem	14 Dec 00:56	82°	149
Jordan	Amman	14 Dec 01:56	83°	149
Lebanon	Beirut	14 Dec 00:56	83°	149
Libya	Tripoli	15 Dec 02:26	83°	149
Malta	Valletta	15 Dec 01:26	83°	149
Morocco	Rabat	14 Dec 02:56	83°	149
Pakistan	Islamabad	14 Dec 01:26	83°	149
Palestine	Giv'at Ze'ev	14 Dec 00:56	82°	149
Portugal	Lisbon	14 Dec 02:56	83°	149
South Korea	Seoul	14 Dec 01:56	82°	149
Syria	Damascus	14 Dec 01:56	83°	149
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	14 Dec 01:56	83°	149
Algeria	Algiers	14 Dec 03:26	81°	148
Armenia	Yerevan	14 Dec 02:26	81°	148
Bahamas	Nassau	14 Dec 02:26	81°	148
Bahrain	Manama	14 Dec 00:56	80°	148
Bhutan	Thimphu	14 Dec 01:26	82°	148
Cyprus	Nicosia	14 Dec 00:56	81°	148
Georgia	Tbilisi	14 Dec 02:26	80°	148
Japan	Tokyo	14 Dec 00:56	82°	148
Kuwait	Kuwait City	14 Dec 00:56	80°	148
North Korea	Pyongyang	14 Dec 01:56	81°	148
Qatar	Doha	14 Dec 00:56	80°	148
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	14 Dec 01:26	81°	148
Taiwan	Taipei	14 Dec 01:26	81°	148
Tunisia	Tunis	15 Dec 01:26	80°	148
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	14 Dec 02:26	82°	148
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	14 Dec 01:56	80°	148
Albania	Tirana	14 Dec 00:56	79°	147
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	14 Dec 03:26	78°	147
Azerbaijan	Baku	14 Dec 01:56	80°	147
Bangladesh	Dhaka	14 Dec 01:26	79°	147
China	Beijing	14 Dec 01:26	79°	147
Cuba	Havana	14 Dec 02:56	78°	147
Italy	Rome	15 Dec 01:26	79°	147
Kosovo	Pristina	14 Dec 00:56	78°	147
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	14 Dec 02:26	79°	147
Monaco	Monaco	15 Dec 01:56	78°	147
Montenegro	Podgorica	14 Dec 00:56	78°	147
Nepal	Kathmandu	14 Dec 01:11	79°	147
North Macedonia	Skopje	14 Dec 00:56	79°	147
Oman	Muscat	14 Dec 01:26	78°	147
Spain	Madrid	14 Dec 03:56	78°	147
Türkiye	Ankara	14 Dec 01:56	79°	147
Vatican City	Vatican City	15 Dec 01:26	79°	147
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	14 Dec 00:56	76°	146
Canada	Ottawa	14 Dec 02:26	76°	146
Romania	Bucharest	14 Dec 01:26	76°	146
San Marino	San Marino	15 Dec 01:26	77°	146
Serbia	Belgrade	14 Dec 00:56	76°	146
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	14 Dec 01:26	77°	146
Vietnam	Hanoi	14 Dec 01:26	77°	146
Bulgaria	Sofia	14 Dec 01:26	76°	145
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	14 Dec 02:56	75°	145
Mexico	Mexico City	14 Dec 02:56	75°	145
Moldova	Chișinău	14 Dec 01:26	75°	145
Myanmar	Naypyidaw	14 Dec 01:26	75°	145
Slovenia	Ljubljana	15 Dec 01:26	76°	145
Switzerland	Bern	15 Dec 01:56	75°	145
Antigua and Barbuda	St. John's	14 Dec 02:26	73°	144
Croatia	Zagreb	14 Dec 00:56	74°	144
Hungary	Budapest	14 Dec 00:56	74°	144
Jamaica	Kingston	14 Dec 02:26	74°	144
Liechtenstein	Vaduz	15 Dec 01:26	73°	144
Mauritania	Nouakchott	14 Dec 03:26	74°	144
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	14 Dec 02:26	74°	144
Austria	Vienna	14 Dec 00:56	72°	143
Belize	Belmopan	14 Dec 02:26	72°	143
Czechia	Prague	15 Dec 01:26	72°	143
France	Paris	14 Dec 03:26	73°	143
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	14 Dec 02:26	73°	143
Laos	Vientiane	14 Dec 01:26	73°	143
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	14 Dec 01:56	72°	143
Slovakia	Bratislava	14 Dec 00:56	72°	143
Sudan	Khartoum	14 Dec 01:26	72°	143
Cape Verde	Praia	14 Dec 02:56	71°	142
Dominica	Roseau	14 Dec 02:26	71°	142
Eritrea	Asmara	14 Dec 01:56	72°	142
Philippines	Manila	14 Dec 01:26	71°	142
Senegal	Dakar	14 Dec 03:26	71°	142
United Kingdom	London	14 Dec 02:26	71°	142
Yemen	Sanaa	14 Dec 01:26	71°	142
Belgium	Brussels	14 Dec 03:26	70°	141
Gambia	Banjul	14 Dec 03:26	70°	141
Germany	Berlin	15 Dec 01:26	70°	141
Guatemala	Guatemala City	14 Dec 02:26	71°	141
Kazakhstan	Astana	14 Dec 01:26	70°	141
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	14 Dec 03:26	71°	141
Poland	Warsaw	14 Dec 00:56	70°	141
Saint Lucia	Castries	14 Dec 02:26	70°	141
Thailand	Bangkok	14 Dec 01:56	70°	141
Ukraine	Kyiv	14 Dec 00:56	70°	141
Barbados	Bridgetown	14 Dec 02:26	69°	140
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	14 Dec 02:26	69°	140
El Salvador	San Salvador	14 Dec 02:26	69°	140
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	14 Dec 02:26	69°	140
Ireland	Dublin	14 Dec 02:56	69°	140
Mali	Bamako	14 Dec 02:56	69°	140
Netherlands	Amsterdam	14 Dec 03:26	69°	140
Nicaragua	Managua	14 Dec 01:56	69°	140
Niger	Niamey	14 Dec 03:26	69°	140
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	14 Dec 02:26	69°	140
Belarus	Minsk	14 Dec 02:26	68°	139
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	14 Dec 01:26	68°	139
Chad	N'Djamena	15 Dec 01:26	68°	139
Grenada	St. George's	14 Dec 02:26	68°	139
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	14 Dec 03:26	68°	139
Denmark	Copenhagen	15 Dec 01:26	66°	138
Djibouti	Djibouti	14 Dec 01:26	67°	138
Lithuania	Vilnius	14 Dec 01:26	67°	138
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	14 Dec 02:26	67°	138
Costa Rica	San José	14 Dec 01:56	66°	137
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	14 Dec 01:56	66°	137
Panama	Panama City	14 Dec 02:26	66°	137
Venezuela	Caracas	14 Dec 02:56	66°	137
Guinea	Conakry	14 Dec 03:26	65°	136
Nigeria	Abuja	15 Dec 01:56	65°	136
Russia	Moscow	14 Dec 01:26	65°	136
Latvia	Riga	14 Dec 01:26	65°	135
Sierra Leone	Freetown	14 Dec 03:26	64°	135
Liberia	Monrovia	14 Dec 02:56	63°	134
Marshall Islands	Majuro	14 Dec 01:56	63°	134
Micronesia	Palikir	14 Dec 01:56	63°	134
Palau	Koror	14 Dec 01:26	63°	134
Estonia	Tallinn	14 Dec 01:26	62°	133
Guyana	Georgetown	14 Dec 02:26	62°	133
Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	14 Dec 02:56	62°	133
Norway	Oslo	15 Dec 01:26	62°	133
Sri Lanka	Colombo	14 Dec 01:26	63°	133
Suriname	Paramaribo	14 Dec 02:56	62°	133
Sweden	Stockholm	14 Dec 00:56	63°	133
Benin	Porto-Novo	14 Dec 03:26	62°	132
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	14 Dec 01:56	62°	132
Finland	Helsinki	14 Dec 01:26	62°	132
Ghana	Accra	14 Dec 02:26	62°	132
South Sudan	Juba	14 Dec 01:26	61°	132
Togo	Lomé	14 Dec 02:26	62°	132
Cameroon	Yaoundé	15 Dec 01:56	61°	131
Central African Republic	Bangui	15 Dec 01:26	61°	131
Colombia	Bogotá	14 Dec 02:26	61°	131
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	15 Dec 01:56	60°	130
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	14 Dec 02:56	60°	130
Maldives	Malé	14 Dec 01:26	60°	130
Somalia	Mogadishu	14 Dec 01:26	58°	128
Kiribati	Teaoraereke Village	14 Dec 01:56	58°	127
Gabon	Libreville	15 Dec 01:56	57°	126
Iceland	Reykjavík	14 Dec 04:26	57°	126
Singapore	Singapore	14 Dec 02:26	57°	126
Uganda	Kampala	14 Dec 02:26	57°	126
Ecuador	Quito	14 Dec 02:26	57°	125
Nauru	Yaren	14 Dec 02:26	56°	125
São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	14 Dec 01:56	57°	125
Kenya	Nairobi	14 Dec 01:56	55°	123
Rwanda	Kigali	14 Dec 01:26	55°	122
Burundi	Gitega	14 Dec 01:26	53°	120
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	15 Dec 01:26	52°	119
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	15 Dec 01:26	52°	119
Seychelles	Victoria	14 Dec 01:56	52°	119
Indonesia	Jakarta	14 Dec 01:26	51°	116
Tanzania	Dodoma	14 Dec 01:56	50°	115
East Timor	Dili	14 Dec 01:56	48°	111
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	14 Dec 01:56	47°	111
Tuvalu	Funafuti	14 Dec 01:26	48°	111
Angola	Luanda	15 Dec 01:26	47°	110
Solomon Islands	Honiara	14 Dec 01:56	47°	110
Comoros	Moroni	14 Dec 01:26	45°	105
Peru	Lima	14 Dec 02:26	45°	105
Samoa	Apia	14 Dec 02:26	43°	103
Malawi	Lilongwe	14 Dec 01:26	43°	102
Brazil	Brasília	14 Dec 02:26	41°	98
Zambia	Lusaka	14 Dec 01:26	41°	98
Vanuatu	Port Vila	14 Dec 01:26	39°	95
Fiji	Suva	14 Dec 01:56	39°	94
Zimbabwe	Harare	14 Dec 01:26	39°	94
Bolivia	Sucre	14 Dec 02:26	38°	92
Madagascar	Antananarivo	14 Dec 01:26	38°	92
Mauritius	Port Louis	14 Dec 01:56	37°	90
Tonga	Nukuʻalofa	14 Dec 02:26	36°	88
Namibia	Windhoek	15 Dec 02:26	34°	85
Botswana	Gaborone	14 Dec 01:56	32°	80
Paraguay	Asunción	14 Dec 02:56	32°	79
South Africa	Pretoria	14 Dec 01:56	31°	78
Mozambique	Maputo	14 Dec 01:26	31°	77
Eswatini	Mbabane	14 Dec 01:26	30°	76
Lesotho	Maseru	14 Dec 01:56	28°	70
Chile	Santiago	14 Dec 03:56	23°	60
Argentina	Buenos Aires	14 Dec 02:56	22°	57
Australia	Canberra	14 Dec 02:56	22°	56
Uruguay	Montevideo	14 Dec 02:56	22°	56
New Zealand	Wellington	14 Dec 02:56	16°	40

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.