Perseids meteor shower 2027
Peak night, up to 100 meteors an hour under a dark sky. A bright Moon (77%) washes out faint meteors; only the brightest will show.
When
What it is
The Perseids are dust from 109P/Swift–Tuttle. Each year the Earth crosses this stream and the grains burn up 80–100 km above us at 59 km/s. The meteors seem to fly out of Perseus, so the shower is named after it.
How to see it
Go somewhere dark after midnight, lie back and look at the whole sky, not at the radiant. Give your eyes 20 minutes to adapt and don’t look at your phone. A bright Moon (77%) washes out faint meteors; only the brightest will show.
Check the clouds for that night
See it for your city
See also
Total solar eclipse 2 August 2027
Totality crosses southern Spain and Gibraltar, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt — up to 6 min 23 s near Luxor — then Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Europe, Africa and western Asia see a partial eclipse.
Penumbral lunar eclipse 17 August 2027
Visible from the Americas and the Pacific.
Perseids meteor shower 2026
Peak night, up to 100 meteors an hour under a dark sky. The Moon is almost out of the way — a good year.