You don’t generally need to get up early to see meteor showers but you will tend to do better after midnight local time. That’s because as the Earth moves along its orbit through the trail of debris left by the comet that created the shower, you are on the back of the planet in the afternoon and evening. Most meteors hit the atmosphere on the forward side of the planet. At midnight, you roll around to the front of the planet where most of the meteors will be most likely to appear.