You can probably watch most showers from the comfort of your backyard unless you live in a super-dense urban area with lots of light pollution. If that’s the case, you should seek out a super dark locale for optimal viewing (and, honestly, we recommend just doing that to begin with to ensure you can see every last meteor).

Even though we’re already a few months into the year, 2022’s meteor shower season is just starting to kick off. There are nine remaining meteor showers we’ll get to see this year, and here’s when you can expect to see them. Be sure to mark your calendar!

Talk about April showers! This shower is active between April 15–29 and it will peak on April 22 (though the Moon that night will be 67% full). You’ll be able to view this shower anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, and you’ll get the best views around dawn.

Expect 10–15 meteors per hour, with roughly a quarter having persistent trains (ionized gas that glows behind the moving meteor). The radiant point of this shower lies low in the northern skies for viewers in the Southern Hemisphere, who will see fewer meteors than those further north.

These are active from April 15 to May 27 and will peak the morning of May 5 at dawn (with a waxing crescent Moon). This shower is ideally viewed from the Southern Hemisphere, though folks in the southern United States will have a fair view as well, with roughly 40–60 meteors per hour (though just 10–20 meteors per hour for those in the States). Those living in more northern climes will still have a view but with fewer meteors.

This long-running shower runs from July 18 through August 21 (it also starts to taper out right when the next shower, the Perseids, starts. Because it’s a lengthier shower, there isn’t a true peak; however, it will be most noticeable on Jul 29 around 2 a.m. local time. Fortunately, the new moon falls on July 28, so the skies should be nice and dark for this one!

Sorry Northern Hemisphere viewers—this is another shower that favors those in the Southern Hemisphere. Those in the southern United States and Central America can still get a fair view. This isn’t the most exciting shower on the list, however, as it will only produce about 15–20 meteors per hour that’ll be faint to begin with. Anywhere from 5 to 10 percent of this shower’s meteors will leave persistent trains, as well.

This is one of the more popular and well-known meteor showers we get to experience. It will be on display in the Northern Hemisphere from July 14 through September 1 and peak on August 13 (best viewed before dawn). However, the moon will be bright that morning, so feel free to enjoy a better view of the Perseids on any late July or early August mornings.

This shower is active between October 8–10 and peaks on October 9. This shower is easier to view in the late evening rather than after midnight like most others, as the full moon is at its peak on October 9.

The Draconids shower is a fascinating one. It’s usually lackluster overall—with only a handful of meteors to see per hour—but it can, on rare occasions, rise like its namesake dragon and produce hundreds of fiery meteors in a single hour. It’s for that reason that The Draconids are such a popular shower, despite its common alignment with a full moon.

These are active from September 26 to November 22 and peak on October 21 between midnight and 2 a.m. local time. This shower outputs about 10–20 meteors per hour under a dark sky. A new moon falls on October 25, so if you’re watching the shower during the peak, you’ll still have a slight waning crescent moon to deal with (though it won’t be too bright).

The South Taurids shower is active from September 23 to November 12, and the North Taurids are active from October 13-December 2. Neither shower has definitive peaks; the South Taurids will be a little stronger on November 5, while the North Taurids will flex a little harder on November 12.

We recommend watching the showers as they overlap anytime in late October or early November, as there’s no moon then. Both showers independently produce roughly 5 meteors an hour, which means you can expect to see about 10 an hour if you’re watching during overlap season.

These meteors are slower moving than those in other showers, and they can often be quite bright. According to the American Meteor Society, the Taurids are also on a seven-year fireball cycle; the last time they produced fireballs was in 2015, so buckle up—2022 promises to offer one hell of a view!

This shower is active from November 3-December 2 and peaks on November 18 around dawn, local time. The optimal viewing time is just before midnight, though, when the waning crescent moon is at its dimmest.

The Leonids typically produce about 10–15 per hour at most. However, this shower once produced one of the most fantastic meteor storms in recorded history. It presented thousands of meteors per minute during a 15-minute period back in 1966 (man, what would it have been like to see that, huh?). Scientists believe these storms happen in 33-year cycles, though its last occurrence around the turn of the century was lackluster in comparison.

These are active from November 19-December 24 and peak on December 14 between mid-evening on the 13th and 2 a.m. local time. It’s one of the most popular and prolific shows of the year, with approximately 120 visible meteors per hour. The Geminids are exceptionally fantastic when the moon isn’t bright, though it’ll be a blazing waning gibbous moon this year.

The shower also puts on a fairly decent show for those in the Southern Hemisphere. It is believed that the Geminids, along with January’s Quadrantids, were once part of an asteroid (3200 Phaethon) rather than a comet like most other meteor showers.