SKY · MILKY WAY · USA
Can You See the Milky Way from Las Vegas?
Good news for Las Vegas: tonight the galactic core climbs to about 25° above the southern horizon in a dark sky. With dark skies and no Moon, the bright heart of the Milky Way is on show.
Core altitude computed for Las Vegas (36.2°, -115.1°) during tonight's dark hours.
Milky Way season & the Moon for Las Vegas
The Moon is nearly out of the way — dark skies for faint objects.
The Milky Way is faint and easily lost to light pollution and moonlight. Even when the core is high, you need a genuinely dark sky — well away from city lights — and ideally a night near the new Moon to see it well from Las Vegas.
Las Vegas right now
A dark, cloudless sky is everything for the Milky Way — a quick check of tonight's cloud cover for Las Vegastells you whether it's worth the trip out of town.
More sky over Las Vegas
SEE IT ON THE MAP
The live sky map shows the day/night line over Las Vegas in real time.