Annual meteor shower schedule

Meteor showers usually correspond with the Earth passing through a dust trail left by a comet. Because the dust trail usually follows the same orbit as the comet, the Earth passes through it at the same time each year. Meteor showers usually occur at the same time each year as the Earth is in the region concerned. Some of the major showers are specified below.

You can find a more comprehensive list of meteor showers here.

^* Approximately every 33 years Comet Temple-Tuttle returns to the inner Solar System laying a new path of dust, and this usually results in a larger display of potentially hundreds of thousands of meteors per hour. This produced a spectacular display in 1966, where observers saw hundreds of meteors every second, and a better than normal show in 1998.