Perseids in São Paulo

The Perseids meteor shower peaks from São Paulo around Aug 12-13, with up to 150 meteors per hour under ideal conditions. In 2026 a new moon means dark skies, and from São Paulo the radiant in Perseus climbs to 8° above the north horizon around 05:50. Local best viewing window: 05:20–06:10 UTC-03 on the peak night, about 0.8 hours of civil twilight. Scaled to that altitude, the 150/hour headline figure works out to roughly 21 meteors an hour from São Paulo under a genuinely dark sky. At this latitude the sky never gets fully dark that night — the Sun only reaches 81.1° below the horizon — so only the brighter meteors will show. Tonight: fully overcast — little chance of a clear gap.