Planets Visible in November 2026: Night Sky Calendar With the Moon, Venus and Uranus Opposition

The best planet sight of November 2026 is a thin crescent Moon about 1° from Venus in the east-southeast before sunrise on Saturday, Nov. 7, and Uranus reaches opposition on Wednesday, Nov. 25, according to our night sky calendar computed from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Horizons data. NASA’s “What’s Up” guide for November 2026 was not online as of Oct. 28 (its index ends at October), so we calculated the month’s planet events ourselves and took the Moon phases from the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO).

Clocks fall back at 2 a.m. on Nov. 1, so every time below is Eastern Standard Time (EST) unless marked; see when daylight saving time ends.

What is happening in the night sky each day of November 2026?

Date (Eastern)	Event	When and where to look	How close
Sun., Nov. 1	Last quarter Moon	3:28 p.m. EST (20:28 Coordinated Universal Time, UTC)	Moon phase
Mon., Nov. 2	Moon with Mars and Jupiter	East-southeast before dawn on Nov. 2 and 3; Mars is closest at 9 a.m., Jupiter at 6 p.m.	Mars about 1.0°, Jupiter about 0.5°
Wed., Nov. 4	Mercury at inferior conjunction	About 10 a.m.; Mercury passes between Earth and Sun and cannot be seen	About 0.4° from the Sun
Sat., Nov. 7	Crescent Moon and Venus	About 6 a.m., low in the east-southeast before sunrise	About 1.0°
Sun., Nov. 8	Moon and Mercury	About 8 a.m.; Mercury is too low to see	About 5.7°
Mon., Nov. 9	New Moon	2:02 a.m. EST (07:02 UTC)	Moon phase
Mon., Nov. 16	Mars and Jupiter	About 9 p.m. on Nov. 15; look before dawn on Nov. 16 in the morning sky	About 1.2°
Tue., Nov. 17	First quarter Moon	6:48 a.m. EST (11:48 UTC)	Moon phase
Fri., Nov. 20	Moon and Neptune	About 3 a.m.; binoculars or a telescope only (magnitude 7.7)	About 4.4°
Fri., Nov. 20	Mercury at greatest western elongation	About 7 p.m.; best seen before dawn on Nov. 20-22	19.6° from the Sun
Tue., Nov. 24	Full Moon (Beaver Moon)	9:53 a.m. EST (14:53 UTC)	Moon phase
Tue., Nov. 24	Full Moon and Uranus	About noon; Moon glare hides Uranus	About 5.1°
Wed., Nov. 25	Uranus at opposition	About 6 p.m.; in Taurus, visible all night	Magnitude 5.6
Mon., Nov. 30	Moon near Jupiter and Mars	Jupiter about 3 a.m., Mars about noon; look at the waning gibbous Moon in the morning	Jupiter about 1.1°, Mars about 3.0°

Separations are center to center as seen from Earth’s center. From any one city the Moon’s apparent position can differ by up to about 1°, so every figure is approximate. The planet times come from hourly JPL Horizons positions for Oct. 31 to Dec. 2, 2026; the Moon phases come from the USNO. Print the same dates on one page with the November 2026 night sky calendar printable, or mark them on a November 2026 printable calendar.

Which planets are in the morning sky?

Venus, Jupiter and Mars all rise before the Sun in November, according to JPL Horizons.

Planet	Distance from the Sun in the sky	Brightness (magnitude)
Venus	13° on Nov. 1, 30° on Nov. 15, 40° on Nov. 30	About -4.2 on Nov. 1 to -4.9 at month’s end
Jupiter	74° on Nov. 1, 87° on Nov. 15, 101° on Nov. 30	About -2.0 to -2.2
Mars	80° on Nov. 1, 87° on Nov. 15, 96° on Nov. 30	About +0.8 to +0.4

Lower magnitudes are brighter. Venus is the brightest of the three and climbs higher before sunrise every day of the month, from only 13° from the Sun on Nov. 1 to 40° by Nov. 30. On Nov. 7 Venus is still fairly low, so find an open view to the east-southeast.

Jupiter and Mars are the other pair to find. On the mornings of Nov. 2 and 3 the last-quarter Moon sits near both in the east-southeast before dawn. On Nov. 16 the planets themselves are about 1.2° apart, with Jupiter at magnitude -2.1 and Mars at +0.7. On Nov. 30 the waning gibbous Moon returns to the same part of the sky, about 1.1° from Jupiter and 3.0° from Mars.

Can I see Mercury, Saturn and Neptune?

Mercury passes between Earth and the Sun on Nov. 4, so it is lost in the glare. It then moves into the morning sky after about Nov. 10 and reaches its greatest western elongation, 19.6° from the Sun, at about 7 p.m. on Nov. 20. The best view is before dawn on Nov. 20-22, at about magnitude -0.1 to -0.7 in late November.

Saturn is in the evening sky, 151° from the Sun on Nov. 1 and 120° by Nov. 30, at magnitude +0.5 to +0.6. It is best in the early evening in the south. Neptune is also an evening planet but shines at only magnitude 7.7, so it needs binoculars or a telescope; the Moon passes about 4.4° from it on Nov. 20.

What is Uranus at opposition?

Opposition means Earth sits between the Sun and Uranus, so the planet is up all night. Uranus reaches it at about 6 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Nov. 25 (about 23:00 UTC), when it is 179.85° from the Sun in the sky. It is in Taurus near the Pleiades, at magnitude 5.6.

That brightness is at the limit of naked-eye visibility from very dark sites; binoculars from dark skies are the realistic tool. The timing is awkward: the Beaver Moon is full on Nov. 24 and still nearly full on Nov. 25, so its glare washes out faint objects. For the full moon details see our Beaver Moon and Cold Moon guide, and for every phase of the month the moon phase calendar for late October and November.

What else is in the sky this month?

The Leonid meteor shower peaks on the night of Nov. 16-17; the details are in our November 2026 meteor shower guide. Looking ahead, the December 2026 printable calendar has room to add next month’s sky events.

Where do these times come from?

NASA’s skywatching series, “What’s Up,” had not posted a November 2026 edition as of Oct. 28, 2026; October is the newest entry on its index. We did not copy another site. We used the NASA JPL Horizons ephemeris, a geocentric calculation at hourly steps, and converted from UTC to Eastern time. Moon phases are from the USNO Astronomical Applications moon phases data. Times are rounded to the hour for planet events, so an event can fall within an hour of the time shown.