The indexnightdatable to the day
Orionid meteor shower
Fires when peak Oct 21-22
Photograph Jim Vajda · CC BY 2.0
The weekly build has been paused since October 6, 2026. The seasons and dates below still hold. Events are the ones the last finished build found, in the week of 2026-09-13, that have not happened yet — anything announced since is missing, and nothing here reflects this week's weather.
October. The notch is October.
Next: Wednesday, October 21 — 2 days away, keyed to the shower's peak night
Dates worth protecting
- Wed, October 21, 2026in 2 days
- Thu, October 21, 2027in 12 months
Keyed to the shower's peak night. Moon dates come from a mean lunar month and can be a day out — check one before you commit a four-hour drive to it.
- Where
- dark-sky sites
- Drive
- 90 minutes from Lakeland
- In season
- October
- Certainty
- datable to the day
- Drone
- permit
From the field
Halley's dust, on a broad flat maximum — one clouded night does not cost you the shower.