If you’re lucky enough to live in the northern hemisphere, you can see nine major meteor showers in the night sky in 2025.
The next of these, the Lyrids, will be visible from about April 15 to April 30, and will peak around April 21–22.
To watch a meteor shower all you need is a dark sky with little to no moonlight, and a location that’s away from excess light, as moonlight and light pollution can wash out shooting stars.
The Lyrids are expected to produce between 15 and 20 meteors per hour, and a quarter of those will be particularly bright, with a persistent train—a streak of light that lingers as the meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere.
The next meteor shower will be the Eta Aquariids, which will produce somewhere between 10 and 30 meteors per hour from around April 19 to May 28.
Unfortunately, the week that this meteor shower peaks will coincide with a relatively large moon, so you’ll have to get up before dawn to see this shower’s dimmer shooting stars.
