Perseids in Bergen

The Perseids meteor shower peaks from Bergen around Aug 12-13, with up to 150 meteors per hour under ideal conditions. In 2026 a new moon means dark skies, and from Bergen the radiant in Perseus climbs to 60° above the north-east horizon around 03:25. Local best viewing window: 00:00–03:25 CEST on the peak night, about 3.4 hours of nautical twilight. Scaled to that altitude, the 150/hour headline figure works out to roughly 130 meteors an hour from Bergen under a genuinely dark sky. At this latitude the sky never gets fully dark that night — the Sun only reaches 14.9° below the horizon — so only the brighter meteors will show. Tonight: total cover forecast, with no usable gaps.