Sky event · 14 December 2026
Geminids 2026
The Geminids peak on 14 December 2026, 13:45 UT, with up to about 150 meteors an hour under a perfect dark sky, coming from Gemini. The Moon is about 21 percent lit and waxing at the hour we state it for (14 December 2026, 02:00 UT).
Sets the map's clock to 14 December 2026, 02:00 UT and flies to the Moon.
Take the trip: Comets and meteor showers
The facts
- Peak, computed
- 14 December 2026, 13:45 UT
- Rate in a perfect sky
- up to about 150 an hour
- Radiant
- in Gemini
- Parent body
- asteroid 3200 Phaethon
- Moon at 02:00 UT on 14 December 2026
- 21 percent lit, waxing
Where to look from your place
Choose a city to see what this looks like from there. With scripts off, the map's Tonight view works out the same for the place you set in it.
What to expect
The rate quoted for a shower (its ZHR, 150 for the Geminids) is what one observer would count in an hour under a perfect dark sky with the radiant overhead: from a town, or with the radiant low, it is a fraction. Lie back, look at a wide patch of sky away from lights, give your eyes twenty minutes, and expect meteors from any part of the sky, all tracing back to the radiant.
What the Moon will do
At 02:00 UT on 14 December 2026 the Moon is 21 percent lit and waxing. That is for anywhere on Earth; whether it is up from your place, and how high, is in the box above.
Sources
- IMO Meteor Shower Calendar 2027 (rates, radiant, activity), read 7 October 2026
Measured or computed? Dates of the showers and of the eclipses are computed with Astronomy Engine, the same library the map uses, and were read by a person on 9 October 2026. The Moon's percentage is computed. Rates are the IMO's and are not predictions of what you will count.