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Benicarló

40.416° N   0.427° E  ·  17 M
65 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 7 hours of workable sky from 23:00.
BEST WINDOW 23:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 23:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.40
Seeing
0.97
Cloud
4%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Benicarló. Colour encodes the score and nothing else; every other measurement is luminance.

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
0
27
64
47
45
65
64
63
65
33
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
1%
7%
12%
36%
37%
7%
6%
6%
4%
8%
8%
Mid cloud
2%
2%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
23%
6%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.44
0.40
0.38
0.35
0.32
0.29
0.26
0.24
0.23
0.27
0.36
Seeing
0.83
0.90
0.93
0.97
0.91
0.88
0.86
0.86
0.89
0.88
0.84
Moon clear
0%
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Inspect

Cloud tracks show clear sky — a longer bar is better. The figure inside each track is the raw measurement.

Why this hour scored what it did
21 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−15
Transparency
−19
Seeing
−3
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−63
Score
0
CLOUD 27% LOW 1% MID 2% HIGH 23% SUN -0.7° MOON 1.7° / 0% WIND 4 TEMP 28°
Excellent 75+ Good 55+ Fair 35+ Poor 15+ Not worth it Seeing is estimated from surface wind — see how we score.

What are you doing tonight?

The same forecast, weighted for the target. Planetary work barely cares about moonlight; long exposures die on high cloud a visual observer would never notice.

SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–06:00 · 7H · MEAN 60

Darkness and moonlight dominate. Faint fuzzies need a genuinely dark sky more than they need steady air.

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ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 23:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–07:00 · 9H · MEAN 68

Seeing is everything and moonlight is irrelevant. Bright targets punch through twilight, so darkness barely counts.

212301030507
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 22:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–06:00 · 7H · MEAN 56

Tolerates soft seeing, but high cloud wrecks a wide frame and moonlight raises the background everywhere.

212301030507
ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 23:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 52

Needs conditions to hold still for hours. Sustained transparency matters more than any single good hour.

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–06:00 · 7H · MEAN 63

Naked eye, whole sky. Total cloud and moonlight are the only things that count.

212301030507
ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 23:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
65
Good
MOON 0%
23:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
76
Excellent
MOON 2%
23:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
69
Good
MOON 6%
23:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
78
Excellent
MOON 13%
02:00–03:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
35
Fair
MOON 21%
02:00–03:00
Monday · 17 Aug
60
Good
MOON 30%
02:00–03:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
88
Excellent
MOON 39%
02:00–03:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Benicarló, Spain are computed from the MET Norway forecast model for these exact coordinates, combined with sun and moon positions we calculate directly. The score weighs cloud cover by layer, atmospheric transparency, estimated seeing, moonlight and how dark the sky actually gets. Read the full method →