2025 Is a Year Full of Meteor Showers: The Next One Arrives This Week
2025 includes a complete schedule Meteor shower. They come like clockwork every year, which means planned shooting star trips can be done months in advance. This is when and how to watch it.
Watching Tips
To see the most shooting stars during any given shower, the first suggestion is to stay away from the big cities as possible, which also applies to suburbs. Light pollution is the enemy of space viewing, and most meteor showers are almost invisible in the suburbs, let alone big cities. From there, you need to find the radiation – also known as the point where the meteor shower seems to originate – and then point your eyes in that direction. The moon’s light can also be a negative factor, but because the shooting of the meteor occurs on a specific day, will nature affect the moonlight?
In August 2019, during the annual Perseid Meteor shower, a meteor was seen on Trona Pinnacles near Death Valley, California.
Gamma Standard
when: February 25 to March 28
Peak Date: March 14-15
Maximum meteor rate: 6 meteors per hour
radiation: Norma
Gamma Normids is a small meteor shower that appears until late February and most of March. It is provided by Comet C/1913 R1 (Crommelin). This is one of the less exciting showers of the year. Its radiation is in the Norma constellation in the southern hemisphere. However, at the peak of mid-March, the craziest sky-rabi can see some shooting stars on dark nights and possibly perform more in the days and weeks that follow. Most people may not see anything, but are still there, abandoning the shooting stars.
Rileydes
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when: April 15th to April 30th
Peak Date: April 21-22
Maximum meteor rate: 18 meteors per hour
radiation: Lyra
Lyrids Meteor Shower picked up things again in April. Its radiation is Lyra, which will rise from the eastern sky every night during the run. This is a little bigger than most people, with up to 18 meteors per hour. Earth is spread throughout C/1861 G1 Thatcher Comet every April, bringing this shower to its citizens. Interestingly, Lyrids’ meteors tend to have no footprints, but can produce some very bright fireballs.
and aquarium
when: April 20 to May 21
Peak Date: May 3-4
Maximum meteor rate: 50 meteors per hour
radiation: Aquarius
1p/Halley, known as Halley’s Comet, is responsible for ETA Aquariids, the largest meteor shower in spring with up to 50 meteors per hour. The only downside is that its radiant Aquarius doesn’t rise from the southeast sky until around 4 a.m. local time, meaning you have to wake up early or be super late to catch it. On the plus side, the moon will fall behind, which means the moon will not hinder the view of this meteor shower.
Alfamo con
when: July 12 to August 12
Peak Date: July 29-30
Maximum meteor rate: 5 meteors per hour
radiation: Captain Mori
Alpha Caprikornids is a small meteor shower from 169p/Nyeat Comet. It’s not a strong shower, but producing some pretty large fireballs is worth noting. It is also visible in the southern and northern hemispheres. This radiates is the magpiriricornus, which is consistent in the southern sky and will be visible all night during peak hours. Fortunately, the moon won’t be too full and therefore not too large for the view.
South Delta Aquarium
when: July 28 to August 12
Peak Date: July 29-30
Maximum meteor rate: 25 meteors per hour
radiation: Aquarius
The southern delta aquarium often overshadows the alpha capricornids. This meteor shower officially started just a day or two before it ended in mid-August. Its early peaks relate it to the same day with the Alpha Capricornids, so if you see a shooting star on July 29 or 30, it might be from either. This radiation is Aquarius, which is next to the capriricornus, which makes the two showers very nice. Researchers are not sure which comet provides us with aquatic comets from the southern Delta, although the best guess is 96p/Machholz.
Perseids
This undated image sees the starry trails and meteors in the shower of Pelder meteors on Sutton Courtenay, a small village in Oxfordshire.
when: July 17 to August 23
Peak Date: Grow 12 of them 13
Maximum meteor rate: 100 meteors per hour
radiation: Perseus
Perseids is one of the major space events held in the summer. It comes from 109p/Swift-Tuttle Comet and is one of the busiest meteor showers of the year. Plus, it happens in summer, which is perfect for shooting stars. The radiation is Perseus, which rises relatively early in the evening from the northeast sky and stays together all night. The only downside is that the moon will almost be full during the peaks of Perseids in 2025, which makes seeing smaller meteors even harder.
Southern Taurus
when: September 23 to November 4
Peak Date: October 10-11
Maximum meteor rate: 5 meteors per hour
radiation: Taurus
The Southern Taureans are one of the longest and lasting meteor showers of the year in more than a year. This is not a particularly active meteor shower, but since it happens in several other meteor showers, you may be looking for another meteor. Comet 2P/Encke fuels this comet, which is a few weeks away from Halloween. This is paired with the Northern Taurus to make a milk meteor shower. However, they peak on different days and are therefore often listed as separate meteor showers.
Orionids
when: October 2 to November 12
Peak Date: October 22-23
Maximum meteor rate: 20 meteors per hour
radiation: Orion
Orionids is a pretty active meteor shower that takes place primarily in October. Its difference comes from the famous Comet Halley, just like the Eta Aquariids shower. Unlike Eta Aquariids, Orionids emerge from the Orion sign, which rises from the eastern sky in October. Plus, the moon is almost new, so this year it will have one of the darkest skies in any shooting star.
Strict
when: October 6 to October 10
Peak Date: October 8
Maximum meteor rate: 10 meteors per hour
radiation: Draco
Daraconids is a small meteor shower, the shortest shower on the list, lasting four days. It comes from the 21/p giacobini-Zimmer comet and peaks of about 10 meteors per hour. The peak only happens two days after it occurs, and the meteor shower ends two days later. The radiation of Draconids is Draco, which is located between the large and small Big Dippers, making it relatively easy to find in the night sky.
Northern Taurus
when: October 13 to December 1
Peak Date: November 8-9
Maximum meteor rate: 5 meteors per hour
radiation: Taurus
The Northern Taurus is the other half of the Taurus Meteor Shower, which lasts longer, from mid-October to December. It peaked around halfway through its run on November 8, a few weeks later than its southern counterparts. Otherwise, the two are actually the same. They are all fueled by 2P/Encke Comet and the products are best with about five meteors per hour. Currently, researchers believe that this shower comes from different parts of the Encke Comet Trail, which is why it is often listed separately from the Southern Cousin.
Leonids
when: November 3 to December 2
Peak Date: November 16-17
Maximum meteor rate: 15 meteors per hour
radiation: Leo
Leonids showers will also peak in a few days after the peak of the northern Niutou Mountains. Leonids created by comet 55p/tempel-tuttle will come from Leo Constellation, which rises in the eastern sky around the local time of most running. This is a larger meteor shower than the Taurus, but the shower is smaller than the Orionids. Since all four intersect in the first week of November, it is difficult to tell which meteor shower comes from the shooting star. This is especially true, because Taurus, Leo and Orion are all in the eastern sky at this time of year. Leonids often have fast, bright meteors leaving a trail, which is probably the only way to distinguish Leonids meteors from the other three showers.
Gemini
when: December 4 to December 20
Peak Date: December 14-15
Maximum meteor rate: 120 shooting stars per hour
radiation: Gemini
Gemini is one of the biggest meteor showers this year, peaking in less than two weeks until Christmas. It is generated by 3200 comets of Phaethon and can display up to 120 meteors per hour under the correct conditions. Gemini are known for their brighter, slower shooting stars, making them easier to see in brighter areas such as cities or suburbs. It takes place in the cold season, but if viewed from outside the big city, it can host a show.
Ursids
when: December 17 to December 26
Peak Date: December 22-23
Maximum meteor rate: 10 meteors per hour
radiation: Little Big Dipper
Ursids begins after the peak of Gemini and continues until the day after Christmas. Since Gemini ends before Christmas, statistically speaking, if you’ve seen a Christmas movie, which is a shooting star, it’s likely from Ursids. The shower peaked on the evening of December 22, which was easily seen in the night sky for most of the night. Just like stern, it disappeared almost with the rapid disappearance of the display, lasting only nine days in total.
Four guards
when:: December 12, 2025 to January 12, 2026
Peak Date: January 3-4, 2026
Maximum meteor rate: 120 shooting stars per hour
radiation: Big Big Dipper
The year ends the same way as the Quandrantids meteor shower. It begins in early December and wraps it up for the New Year. So while it does have the difference between shooting meteor showers that occur twice a year, the peaks are always the first few days of January. Otherwise, it’s the same shooting shower as the four symbols listed above. So we will use this space to provide an interesting fact. Most meteor showers are attracted by comets, ice cubes that float in the universe, which leave long paths that create shooting stars as the earth moves. However, bipedals were driven by the 2003 EH, which is an asteroid rather than a comet. Researchers believe that in 2003, EH may have been a comet that disappeared and became an asteroid.
