Sky guide, 18.5°N

The night sky over Pune

What changes through the year in the sky above Pune: how dark it gets, which constellations you can and cannot see, and what the eclipses and meteor showers of 2026 and 2027 look like from here.

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Sunrise, sunset and darkness through 2026

Pune is at 18.5°N. The table gives sunrise, sunset and day length on the 15th of each month in local time (Asia/Kolkata), and the hours of full astronomical darkness, when the Sun is more than 18 degrees below the horizon and the faintest stars and the Milky Way show. The longest dark nights are around December, with about 10 h 23 min of darkness.

Sun and darkness in Pune, 15th of each month, 2026. Local time.
Month	Sunrise	Sunset	Day length	Full darkness
January	07:09	18:18	11 h 08 min	10 h 18 min
February	07:02	18:35	11 h 33 min	9 h 60 min
March	06:43	18:44	12 h 01 min	9 h 33 min
April	06:17	18:51	12 h 34 min	8 h 56 min
May	06:00	19:01	13 h 00 min	8 h 21 min
June	05:57	19:12	13 h 14 min	8 h 00 min
July	06:06	19:14	13 h 08 min	8 h 10 min
August	06:16	19:01	12 h 45 min	8 h 42 min
September	06:22	18:37	12 h 15 min	9 h 20 min
October	06:28	18:12	11 h 44 min	9 h 51 min
November	06:41	17:57	11 h 16 min	10 h 13 min
December	06:58	18:00	11 h 02 min	10 h 23 min

Constellations and your latitude

How much of the sky you can see depends on latitude. From Pune, in the northern hemisphere, no constellation stays up all night all year. 2 never rise above the horizon: Chamaeleon and Octans. 9 more only partly clear it: Apus, Carina, Hydrus, Indus, Mensa, Musca, Pavo, Tucana and Volans. These come from the IAU's constellation boundaries and are geometric, so they ignore haze, hills and buildings near the horizon.

Eclipses from Pune, 2026 and 2027

Eclipses 2026 and 2027 and what Pune sees
Date	Eclipse	From Pune
17 Feb 2026	Annular solar eclipse	Not visible from here
3 Mar 2026	Total lunar eclipse	Not visible from here
12 Aug 2026	Total solar eclipse	Not visible from here
28 Aug 2026	Partial lunar eclipse	Not visible from here
6 Feb 2027	Annular solar eclipse	Not visible from here
21 Feb 2027	Penumbral lunar eclipse	A penumbral eclipse is a faint shading that is hard to see by eye. From here the Moon is 31° up at the peak.
18 Jul 2027	Penumbral lunar eclipse	A penumbral eclipse is a faint shading that is hard to see by eye. From here the Moon is 27° up at the peak.
2 Aug 2027	Total solar eclipse	Visible from here: 32% of the Sun is covered at the peak, with the Sun 33° up. The greatest eclipse is near 25°N, 33°E. Never look at the Sun without proper eclipse glasses.
17 Aug 2027	Penumbral lunar eclipse	Not visible from here

Meteor showers: how high the radiant gets

The radiant is the point a meteor shower seems to stream from; the higher it climbs, the better the shower works. This is the highest each radiant gets from Pune. See the meteor shower table for peak dates and the Moon.

Radiant altitude from Pune
Shower	Highest radiant	Peak	ZHR
Orionids	87°	22 Oct	20
Leonids	87°	18 Nov	15
Southern Taurids	86°	6 Nov	7
Geminids	76°	14 Dec	150
Lyrids	75°	23 Apr	18
Eta Aquariids	70°	6 May	50
Quadrantids	60°	4 Jan	80
Southern Delta Aquariids	55°	31 Jul	25
Draconids	53°	9 Oct	5
Perseids	51°	13 Aug	110

How this was worked out

Sun and darkness times come from the astronomy-engine library. The sunrise and sunset times on both 2026 solstices at this and five other places were compared with the US Naval Observatory's tables (20 times) and the largest difference was 30 seconds. The other mid-month figures use the same calculation but were not compared one by one. Constellation visibility comes from the IAU boundaries.

Sources

astronomy-engine. The MIT licensed library that does the calculations, run on the page's build machine and in the app
IAU: The Constellations. Names, meanings, pronunciations and boundaries
U.S. Naval Observatory, Astronomical Applications API. Used to check the solstice sunrise and sunset times