Planet Alignment 2025 Viewing Time. The best time to view the 2025 planetary alignment will be after sunset, which for nyc, will be around 5pm daily in the month of january and into february. Three supermoons are expected in late 2025, alongside annual meteor showers like the perseids and geminids, offering stargazers plenty of viewing opportunities.

The alignment of six planets—venus, mars, jupiter, saturn, neptune, and uranus. This setup makes opposition the “best time to see and photograph a planet,” according to royal museums greenwich.