When is the peak?
The International Meteor Organization puts the Leonid nodal maximum on 17 November 2026 at 23:45 UT. Watch the night of 17 to 18 November. The usual rate is about 15 fast meteors an hour, some with trains. Storm years belong to other returns of comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. This is not one of them.
Leo rises late, so the hours after midnight are the useful ones, after the crescent moon is less in the way. The southern sky sees fewer. The page is the shower. The Geminids in December are the strong one.