Meteor showers from Cần Thơ in 2026

Meteor showers over Cần Thơ in 2026

Twelve showers, one city. From Cần Thơ, Can Tho City — 10.0°N, 105.79°E, 3 m, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh — 12 of them put a radiant above the horizon in darkness at maximum, 3 pass ten an hour, and the Geminids tops the 2026 list at 53.4 an hour.

Clock time here runs 3 minutes behind mean solar time, so local solar midnight on the Geminids peak night falls at 23:51 rather than 00:00. Cần Thơ, Can Tho City is the 275th largest of the 300 cities on this site, with a population of 1.51 million.

The three best nights of 2026 here

The Geminids peaks at 20:41 on 14 December 2026 Cần Thơ time. Its radiant culminates 67.8° up at 02:00 bearing N, the Moon is 26% lit, and 23:00–05:00 is the window — about 53.4 meteors an hour on this city's own measured sky.

Behind it, the Perseids manages 28.1 an hour on 13 August (radiant 41.4° at best, Moon 0% lit) and the Quadrantids 15.1 on 4 January (radiant 32.5°, Moon 100%). Those are the three nights worth defending in a calendar; the full ranking for Cần Thơ is in the table below.

At the other end of the list the Ursids manages 0.6 an hour on 23 December with the radiant reaching 24.4° at culmination, and the faintest one that still puts anything measurable in the sky here is the Southern delta-Aquariids at 1.1 an hour on 31 July.

What this latitude allows

Every one of the twelve gets its radiant above the Cần Thơ horizon at some point on the night of maximum — a property of the tropics at 10.0°N, where radiants in both celestial hemispheres rise at some hour. The lowest any of them culminates is the Ursids, at 24.4°.

Nothing is circumpolar from 10.0°N among these twelve: every radiant sets at some point, which is why the hourly tables on the shower pages for Cần Thơ rise and fall rather than staying flat.

Sunset, twilight and real darkness

On the Geminids peak night the Sun sets over Cần Thơ at 17:37, astronomical darkness runs 18:53 to 04:50, and sunrise is 06:05 — 9 h 57 min of real darkness inside 12 h 28 min of night. These are Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh times, which is what you set an alarm by.

Across the twelve peak nights of 2026, astronomical darkness at Cần Thơ runs from 8 h 57 min on the Southern delta-Aquariids night (31 July) to 9 h 57 min on the Ursids night (23 December). Long nights give a shower room to perform even when its radiant rises late.

Moon luck in 2026

Moon phase makes or breaks a meteor year. In 2026 the showers that catch a dark Moon from Cần Thơ are Perseids (0% lit, 28.1/h).

Working against them, Quadrantids (100% lit), Orionids (78% lit) run into a bright Moon for most of the dark window, which is already priced into the rates quoted on this page.

Near Cần Thơ

The closest other cities covered here are Ho Chi Minh City (127 km NE), Phnom Penh (195 km NNW), Bangkok (708 km NW), Kuala Lumpur (890 km SSW), Singapore (996 km SSW). Within a few tens of kilometres the radiant altitudes are effectively identical, so the reason to open a neighbour's page is the clock: sunset, moonrise and the peak window all shift with longitude and, across a border, with the time zone.

2 of the 300 cities lie within 500 km of here, and 4 share its country. The nearest, Ho Chi Minh City, is 127 km NE on a bearing of 46°.

What this page does not know

Every rate here uses this city's measured sky brightness, derived from satellite night-lights data and modelled down to a zenith brightness. It is one number for a whole metropolitan area, so a dark park on the edge of town will beat it and a floodlit street will not match it, and it describes the sky overhead rather than the whole horizon-to-horizon view the Bortle scale grades.

Cloud cover is not baked into this page — it is a forecast that changes by the hour, so it is resolved live rather than at build time and shows as "unavailable" in the tables rather than being assumed to be zero. 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 figures quoted here. 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.