--- title: Here's How You Can See the Quadrantid Meteor Shower's Peak description: The shower is often the strongest and most consistent meteor shower of the entire year, producing up to 110 shooting stars per hour. canonical: https://time.com/6551735/quadrantid-meteor-shower-peak-2024/ author: Anna Gordon article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-01-03T16:31:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T16:54:10.161Z article:section: Science og:title: Here's How You Can See the Quadrantid Meteor Shower og:description: The shower is often the strongest meteor shower of the entire year, producing up to 110 shooting stars per hour. og:url: https://time.com/6551735/quadrantid-meteor-shower-peak-2024/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07b8e2a49090ab47/698a438cb3fce337440cb272/quadrantids.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Quadrantid Meteor Shower og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How You Can See the Quadrantid Meteor Shower twitter:description: The shower is often the strongest meteor shower of the entire year, producing up to 110 shooting stars per hour. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07b8e2a49090ab47/698a438cb3fce337440cb272/quadrantids.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Can See the Quadrantid Meteor Shower's Peak Overnight—Here's How > Sponsored content. 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KORLA, CHINA - JANUARY 4, 2022 - A quadrantid meteor shower is seen in the night sky in Korla City, Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Jan 4, 2022. Xue Bing–Costfoto/Future Publishing/Getty Images by [Anna Gordon](https://time.com/author/anna-gordon/) ## Anna Gordon Gordon was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Jan 3, 2024 4:31 PM UTC The first meteor shower of the year is set to peak overnight Wednesday. Every year from the end of December to mid-January, the Quadrantid Meteor shower–a natural phenomenon in which cosmic debris enters the Earth’s atmosphere and creates shining streaks of light sometimes visible to the naked eye– occurs. But overnight, between January 3 and January 4 this year, the phenomenon will peak in brightness and be the easiest to view, according to the [American Meteor Society](https://www.amsmeteors.org/2023/12/viewing-the-2024-quadrantid-meteor-shower/). The shower is often the strongest and most consistent meteor shower of the entire year, producing up to 110 shooting stars per hour. And for those wanting to see the natural phenomenon across North America, Hawaii and Alaska, the best results for viewing the phenomenon will usually be between midnight and 5 a.m—with North America being on the earlier end of those hours. The shower’s peak range is expected to be from 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET. The Southern Hemisphere isn’t as likely to get a glimpse of the shower. For the best viewing possibilities, it's important to find an area with [minimal light pollution. ](https://www.amsmeteors.org/2023/12/viewing-the-2024-quadrantid-meteor-shower/) Ideally, you also want to be under a cloudless sky with scarce moonlight as well. The meteors can be seen radiating from [the constellation, Boötes](https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/bootes-constellation/), which is near the big dipper. Those who want to catch it, can use a [night sky mapper](https://www.stelvision.com/astro/sky-map/) to determine which part of the sky you should look at given your current location. The meteor shower was first named in the 1830s after it had been observed by several astronomers in Europe and the Americas. They were named Quadrantids after the name of the constellation called "Quadrans Muralis," the "Mural or Wall Quadrant." Though this name is no longer used by astronomers to refer to the constellations in that region of the sky today, the name of the meteor shower stuck and continues to be referred to as the Quadrantids till today. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6551735/quadrantid-meteor-shower-peak-2024/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6551735/quadrantid-meteor-shower-peak-2024/"},"headline":"You Can See the Quadrantid Meteor Shower's Peak Overnight—Here's How","datePublished":"2024-01-03T16:31:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T16:54:10.161Z","description":"The shower is often the strongest and most consistent meteor shower of the entire year, producing up to 110 shooting stars per hour.","url":"https://time.com/6551735/quadrantid-meteor-shower-peak-2024/","keywords":["Space","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07b8e2a49090ab47/698a438cb3fce337440cb272/quadrantids.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Anna Gordon","jobTitle":"Gordon was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau.","url":"https://time.com/author/anna-gordon/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07b8e2a49090ab47/698a438cb3fce337440cb272/quadrantids.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Quadrantid Meteor Shower","caption":"Quadrantid Meteor Shower","creditText":"Xue Bing–Costfoto/Future Publishing/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6551735/quadrantid-meteor-shower-peak-2024/","name":"You Can See the Quadrantid Meteor Shower's Peak Overnight—Here's How"}}]}] ```