Perseids from Lahore in 2026

Perseids from Lahore: the short answer

The Perseids reaches maximum at 07:00 local time on 13 August 2026 over Lahore, Punjab (31.6°N, 74.35°E, 216 m). The radiant culminates 63.6° high at 05:49 and the useful window runs 00:00–05:00, with a ceiling of 23.8 meteors an hour on Lahore's own measured sky.

That ranks it 2nd of twelve from Lahore this year, behind the Geminids (35.8/h).

The radiant track over this city

At 31.6°N a declination-+57.9° radiant traces an arc from 18:36 to 17:00, topping out at 63.6° at 05:49 bearing 0°. Inside the dark window it only manages 62.3°, and that lower figure is the one the rates are built from. The radiant currently lies in Cassiopeia.

When it gets dark here

Sunset over Lahore is 18:49, civil twilight ends 19:14, and the sky reaches astronomical darkness — Sun 18° down — at 20:17. It holds until 03:57, with sunrise at 05:26: 7 h 40 min of real darkness inside 10 h 37 min of night.

Local solar midnight, the true middle of the night, falls at 00:07 here rather than at 00:00: Asia/Karachi runs 3 minutes ahead of mean solar time at 74.35°E. That offset is why the best hour on this page is not the hour you would guess from the clock.

What the Moon does here

The Moon is 0% illuminated and below the horizon for 10 of the 10 sampled dark hours, so moonlight subtracts essentially nothing here. Moonrise 05:49. Moonset 18:41. At the best hour the limiting magnitude reaches 5.00 — the full value for this city's measured sky.

Why 24 an hour and not 100

Zenithal hourly rate 100, population index 2.2, entry speed 58.8 km/s — fast. Those are stream constants. What changes from city to city is the geometry: at 62.3° of radiant altitude and limiting magnitude 5.00, Lahore converts that ZHR into about 23.8 meteors an hour.

Hour by hour the modelled rate runs from 0.7 at 20:00 (radiant 3.6°) to 0.5 at 05:00 (radiant 62.3°), peaking at 23.8. That spread across 10 hours is why a "what time" answer beats a "how many" answer.

The stream comes from Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle and is listed as active 17 July to 24 August, so 13 August 2026 is the best night from Lahore rather than the only one.

Watching from around Lahore

Lahore, Punjab is the 10th largest of the 300 cities covered here, with a population of 13.00 million at 216 m above sea level. The nearest other cities on the site are Gujranwala (68 km NNW), Faisalabad (121 km W), Ludhiana (160 km ESE) — close enough that the radiant altitudes barely change, far enough that sunset and moonrise do.

What this page does not know

Rates on this page are computed against this city's own measured sky brightness, derived from satellite night-lights data. That is a calculated brightness for the point directly overhead, not a survey of your street: a park on the edge of town and a lit car park in the centre share the same figure here and will not look the same. It is also zenith-only, while the Bortle scale describes the whole sky from horizon to horizon.

Cloud cover is a forecast, not a constant, so it is resolved when you load the tonight card and is deliberately absent from this prerendered page — the hourly table shows "unavailable" rather than assuming clear skies. Meteor outbursts, local terrain and building horizons are not modelled.

A single observer with an unobstructed horizon typically records 30–50% below the ideal-sky figure. Give your eyes twenty minutes to adapt, keep bright screens away, look about halfway up the sky rather than straight at the radiant, and count for a full hour before judging a shower.