The Galactic Times Sky Planning Calendar

Closest to the Sun for the year, 91.4 million miles.

....Mars is a half-degree North of the Moon in the afternoon US time. You’ll find it left of the Moon in the evening, and behind the Moon if you are in East Africa.

10pm, lasts only a few hours, but can be as much as 120 meteors per hour.

....then resumes eastward motion.

....and brightest?