The last meteor shower of 2025, the Ursid meteor shower, arrives each year around the winter solstice. While it isn’t as impressive as the recent Geminid shower, it’s still worth seeing. What You Need To Know The Ursid meteor shower peaks in the pre-dawn hours of Dec. 22 The average number of meteors per hour is 5-10. On rare occasions, there have been bursts near 100 The Ursid meteor shower originates from the debris trail of Comet 8P/Tuttle What causes most meteor showers?