The Quadrantid meteor shower is expected to peak between roughly 21h UT on January 3 to 06h UT on January 4 (see the shower calendar for details). New Moon creates ideal circumstances for observing the shower from northern hemisphere sites this year. From many such places, the shower's radiant is circumpolar, in northern Boötes, attaining a useful elevation only after local midnight, and rising higher in the sky towards morning twilight. This means places at European longitudes east to those of central Asia should be best-placed to record what happens.