Stars Tonight in Maputo, Maputo City, Mozambique

Making the most of the night sky from Maputo, Maputo City, Mozambique

Stars do not move relative to each other, but the whole sky turns as Earth rotates and shifts through the year as Earth orbits the Sun. That is why the brightest stars listed here change from month to month, and why a star that is overhead at 9 pm in winter is gone by summer. The positions above are worked out from your latitude and the time, so they hold for Maputo, Maputo City, Mozambique specifically.

Give your eyes 20 minutes. Dark adaptation takes about that long, and a single glance at a phone screen resets it. Use a red light if you need to read a chart. Away from streetlights and with no Moon, you can see several thousand stars; under city lights, a few hundred.

To put names to what you see, open the interactive star map or the guide to all 88 constellations. For planets, meteors and the Milky Way tonight, see the Sky Tonight hub, and for the Moon's schedule here, the Moon page for Maputo, Maputo City, Mozambique.