Stargazing & Moon Viewing Score

Use moonlight, night windows, and nearby sky events to judge whether a night is good for stargazing or moon viewing.

How to read the stargazing score

Plan with cloud cover, sky darkness, moonlight, local light pollution, and the night's astronomical events in view.

• Dark window — After sunset, deep-sky objects, the Milky Way, and meteors improve once nautical or astronomical twilight has ended.
• Moonlight — Full-moon nights are great for moon viewing but wash out faint stars. New-moon nights are better for dark-sky targets.
• Place and direction — The same night can feel completely different in a city and on a mountain. Use the score to decide whether to go, then the map and sky chart to decide where to stand and face.

Turn tonight into a route

Once the date looks promising, choose a dark-sky site, confirm the Milky Way or Moon direction on the live sky map, and check whether any sky event deserves extra time.

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• New Taipei: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Taichung: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Tainan: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Kaohsiung: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Hualien: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Taitung: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Kenting: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Tokyo: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Okinawa (Naha): 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Honolulu: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Chiayi: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Kanazawa: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Matsu: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Nagoya: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Osaka: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Penghu: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Sapporo: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Yilan: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10
• Hong Kong: 2026/08 · 2026/09 · 2026/10

Related tools: Taiwan Dark-Sky Map · Live Sky Map · Meteor Showers