"This is the brightest comet since Comet McNaught in 2006," Bill Cooke, the lead of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, tells Condé Nast Traveler. "18 years is a long time to wait for an easy-to-see comet."
For your best chance of spotting the comet, look for it "low in the Western sky about 45 minutes after sunset," Cooke says. "It currently sets about 8 p.m. local time, so folks have about an hour to take a look. As the nights pass, it will grow fainter and fainter, requiring binoculars or a small telescope in 7 to 10 days."
The comet is most visible north of the Equator in areas without too much light pollution. This means observers in larger US cities may not be able to see Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, but it is visible from the suburbs.
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