The indexnightdatable to the day
Quadrantid meteor shower
Fires when peak Jan 3-4; short sharp maximum
Photograph eberhard grossgasteiger · CC0 1.0
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.
January. The notch is October.
Next: Sunday, January 3 — 76 days away, keyed to the shower's peak night
Dates worth protecting
- Sun, January 3, 2027in 3 months
- Mon, January 3, 2028in 15 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
- January
- Certainty
- datable to the day
- Drone
- permit
From the field
A maximum measured in hours rather than nights, so a few hours of cloud costs the entire year.