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Yiwu

29.315° N   120.077° E  ·  84 M
56 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 3 hours of workable sky from 02:00.
BEST WINDOW 02:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 00:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.27
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
28%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
48
32
50
50
56
1
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
3%
6%
1%
2%
0%
0%
1%
Mid cloud
9%
41%
15%
6%
2%
3%
2%
High cloud
44%
41%
31%
41%
31%
25%
8%
Transparency
0.27
0.24
0.23
0.22
0.22
0.20
0.19
Seeing
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
down
down
0%
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
00 Fair · 48/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−33
Transparency
−20
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
48
CLOUD 50% LOW 3% MID 9% HIGH 44% SUN -45.7° MOON -44.5° / 0% WIND 1 TEMP 27°
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 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–05:00 · 3H · MEAN 50

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

00020406
CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–05:00 · 5H · MEAN 57

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

00020406
TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–05:00 · 3H · MEAN 44

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

00020406
CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 37

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

00020406
TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–05:00 · 3H · MEAN 51

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

00020406
CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
56
Good
MOON 0%
02:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
46
Fair
MOON 1%
02:00–05:00
Friday · 14 Aug
49
Fair
MOON 5%
01:00–04:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
47
Fair
MOON 10%
02:00–03:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
14
Clouded out
MOON 19%
Monday · 17 Aug
56
Good
MOON 28%
02:00–03:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
33
Poor
MOON 37%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Yiwu, China 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 →