Perseids in Stockholm

The Perseids meteor shower peaks from Stockholm around Aug 12-13, with up to 150 meteors per hour under ideal conditions. In 2026 a new moon means dark skies, and from Stockholm the radiant in Perseus climbs to 62° above the east horizon around 02:50. Local best viewing window: 22:55–02:50 CEST on the peak night, about 3.9 hours of nautical twilight. Scaled to that altitude, the 150/hour headline figure works out to roughly 132 meteors an hour from Stockholm under a genuinely dark sky. At this latitude the sky never gets fully dark that night — the Sun only reaches 15.9° below the horizon — so only the brighter meteors will show. Tonight: complete cloud cover across the forecast window.