Starlink Coverage Near You
Pick any place on Earth to see how many Starlink satellites are above the horizon right now, with a live sky view.
"Coverage" here means line-of-sight: how many satellites are currently above your local horizon, where a Starlink dish could reach them. Because the constellation orbits low and moves quickly, that count changes minute by minute as satellites rise in one part of the sky and set in another. Search a city or share your location and the view below counts them live, with each satellite's elevation (height above the horizon) and azimuth (compass direction to look).
This is a real-time snapshot, not a service-availability map. To learn how orbital geometry decides who gets coverage, read how Starlink coverage works.
Search for a city or use your location to see how many Starlink satellites are above you right now.
What the numbers above actually mean
The count is a line-of-sight figure: how many active Starlink satellites are geometrically above your local horizon at this instant, computed from current orbital elements. It is the same calculation a Starlink dish performs when deciding which satellite to point at, run for your coordinates instead of the dish's.
Each satellite in the list carries two angles. Elevation is how high it sits above the horizon, from 0° at the horizon to 90° directly overhead. Azimuth is the compass direction to look, measured clockwise from north — 0° north, 90° east, 180° south, 270° west. Together they pin a point in your sky precisely enough to aim at.
Watch the list for a minute and it will change. Satellites at 550 km travel about 7.6 km every second, crossing from horizon to horizon in a handful of minutes, so the set overhead turns over continuously. That churn is why a Starlink connection hands between satellites every few minutes rather than holding one link.
Why elevation matters more than the raw count
Twenty satellites low on the horizon is a worse position than five high overhead, and the reason is distance. A satellite directly above you is about 550 km away. The same satellite at 20° elevation is well over twice as far, because you are looking along a slanted path through a much longer stretch of geometry.
That extra distance costs twice. It adds latency, since the signal has further to travel, and it weakens the link, since radio signals fall off with the square of distance. It also means the signal passes through far more atmosphere, which is why low-elevation satellites are the first to suffer in heavy rain.
The same geometry governs visibility. A satellite low on the horizon is dimmer and more likely to be lost in haze or behind terrain, which is why pass predictions rank passes by the maximum elevation they reach.
Why your latitude changes what you see
The count is not the same everywhere, and the pattern is not random. Starlink's largest orbital shells are inclined at about 53°, meaning those satellites never travel further north or south than 53° latitude. Traffic is densest over the band beneath them.
Live near 53° north or south — much of the UK, northern Europe, southern Canada, the northern United States — and you sit under the busiest part of the constellation, with frequent satellites climbing high overhead. Near the equator you get plenty of satellites but crossing at steeper angles. Above roughly 60°, the 53° shells only ever appear low toward the equator, and the higher-inclination shells at 70° and 97.6° provide the overhead coverage instead.
The guide to Starlink's orbital shells explains why the constellation is built this way, and why inclination is the single number that decides who gets good geometry.
What this page is not
This is a real-time orbital snapshot, not a service-availability map. Satellites being overhead is a necessary condition for Starlink service, not a sufficient one — availability also depends on whether SpaceX is licensed to sell service in your country, and on whether the cell covering your address has spare capacity.
That distinction matters when a location shows dozens of satellites overhead and still cannot buy service. The constraint in that case is regulatory or commercial rather than orbital, and this guide covers how those two gates work.
Nor does the count account for anything local. Terrain, buildings and trees block satellites that this page counts as visible, because the calculation knows your coordinates and nothing about what surrounds them. A satellite at 15° elevation behind a hill is in the count and not in your sky.