Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun will carry it to
its closest point to the Earth – its perigee –
passing within
4.09 AU of us.

Jupiter reaches perigee at around the time when it passes the
Earth in its orbit. At this time, the Sun, Earth and Jupiter lie in a straight line, with the Earth in the middle.

Consequently, Jupiter appears almost exactly opposite the Sun
in the sky – a configuration called opposition, when Jupiter reaches
its highest point in the sky at midnight and is visible for much of the night.

Every perigee of Jupiter is associated with a
near-simultaneous opposition.

On this occasion, Jupiter will attain a maximum angular diameter of

47.1 arcsec
at closest approach, and a maximum brightness of magnitude -2.8 .

Observing Jupiter

Even at its closest approach to the Earth, it is never possible to distinguish
Jupiter as more than a star-like point of light with the naked
eye, though a simple pair of binoculars is sufficient to reveal it as a disk of
light.

From Los Angeles , it will be visible between 17:25 and 06:07. It will become accessible at around 17:25, when it rises to an altitude of 7° above your eastern horizon. It will reach its highest point in the sky at 23:46, 77° above your southern horizon. It will become inaccessible at around 06:07 when it sinks below 7° above your western horizon.