Meteor shower is the plain-language search people use for Perseids peak nights, and mid-August 2026 put that phrase at the top of Google Trends. Google Search interest for the keyword meteor shower reached 6 for the week of August 8 2026, up from 4 on August 1 and 1 on July 11. Trends MCP records a series-derived +500.0% 30-day rise and +20.0% over 90 days from 5 on May 9. get_growth returns +50.0% over 7 days (4 → 6) and +500.0% over 30 days (1 → 6), matching the weekly series endpoint. On boards as of August 13 2026 08:01 UTC, meteor shower ranked 1 on Google Trends while solar eclipse 2026 sat at rank 2. Data pulled August 13 2026 from source google search.
Meteor shower search interest right now
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Latest value (week of August 8 2026) | 6 |
| 30-day change | +500.0% (1 on July 11 2026 → 6) |
| 90-day change | +20.0% (5 on May 9 2026 → 6) |
| Peak value | 59 on August 16 2025 |
| Prior August highs | 44 on August 19 2023; 41 on August 17 2024; 34 on August 12 2023; 30 on August 14 2021 |
| First seen in series | August 14 2021 |
| 7-day growth (get_growth) | +50.0% (4 → 6), recent date August 8 2026 |
| Google Trends rank (August 13 2026) | 1 |
| Solar eclipse 2026 board rank (same pull) | 2 |
Every row traces to the stored topics/data/meteor-shower.json series or to same-day Trends MCP get_growth / get_top_trends pulls. Values sit on the normalized 0-100 Google Search scale. The August 8 point is still early in the seasonal climb relative to prior August crests that printed in the mid-40s to high-50s.
About meteor shower
A meteor shower is a burst of meteors from Earth crossing a comet debris stream. The phrase that dominates mid-August search is almost always the Perseids: particles from comet Swift-Tuttle that appear to radiate from Perseus. Wikipedia lists Perseid activity from about July 14 to September 1, a peak near August 13, entry speeds near 58.8 km/s, and a zenithal hourly rate around 100 under good skies. The American Meteor Society 2026 list marks activity July 17 through August 29 with peak nights August 12-13 and a ZHR near 100.
People search meteor shower for viewing windows, moon interference, and local weather, not for orbital mechanics. News outlets such as KCRA and national science desks ran Perseid peak explainers on August 12 2026, which lines up with the Google Trends rank-1 reading the next morning. The same week also carried heavy eclipse traffic after the August 12 2026 European total solar eclipse, so sky-event language crowded the boards together.
What the time series shows
The Google Search curve for meteor shower is a textbook seasonal spike pattern. Quiet weeks sit near 1 through most of the year, then August prints sharp crests: 30 on August 14 2021, 23 on August 13 2022, 34 on August 12 2023 and 44 on August 19 2023, 41 on August 17 2024, and the series peak of 59 on August 16 2025. Winter Geminid-era bumps appear too, including 26 on December 16 2023 and 16 on December 14 2024, but they stay below the Perseid highs.
For 2026, July stayed thin at 1 on July 4 and July 11, then rose to 3 on July 18, 3 on July 25, 4 on August 1, and 6 on August 8. Derived labels from the stored series are growth_label exploding, speed_label exponential, seasonality_label high, and volatility_label high. Exploding follows the +500.0% 30-day change. Exponential follows a recent 30-day absolute move of 5 versus a prior 30-day absolute move of 1. High seasonality marks the repeating August peak pattern. High volatility matches a week-over-week percent-change standard deviation near 175.
Related topics
- solar eclipse: +500.0% over 30 days on Google Search (1 → 6) and +100.0% over 7 days (3 → 6), Trends MCP get_growth, recent date August 8 2026; topic page: Solar eclipse.
- solar eclipse 2026: Google Trends rank 2 on the August 13 2026 08:01 UTC board, immediately behind meteor shower at rank 1.
- Source pages for the boards behind these ranks: Google Trends and Wikipedia Trending API.