How to Watch the Final Meteor Shower of 2025
Gretchen Rundorff
created: Dec. 17, 2025, noon | updated: Jan. 2, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
If you want to get into stargazing in 2025, you still have the chance: there’s one final meteor shower to catch this year.
Watching a meteor shower is one of the most accessible ways to engage with the night sky.
This is the ninth and final major meteor shower to grace skies in 2025.
2025’s Final Meteor Shower: The UrsidsThe Ursids are active around December 17 to December 26, peaking in the early morning hours of December 22.
The moon will set at approximately 6 pm in the eastern US on the 21st, so no moonlight will interfere with this meteor shower.
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