Ursids in Singapore

The Ursids meteor shower peaks from Singapore around Dec 22, with up to 10 meteors per hour under ideal conditions. In 2026 a half moon will wash out fainter meteors, and from Singapore the radiant in Ursa Minor climbs to 11° above the north horizon around 06:10. Local best viewing window: 05:20–06:10 UTC+08 on the peak night, about 0.8 hours of nautical twilight. Scaled to that altitude, the 10/hour headline figure works out to roughly 2 meteors an hour from Singapore under a genuinely dark sky. At this latitude the sky never gets fully dark that night — the Sun only reaches 67.9° below the horizon — so only the brighter meteors will show. Tonight: complete cloud cover across the forecast window.