Tonight’s sky, worked out for where you stand

Shown for Londonestimated

Waxing crescent

Illuminated
22%
growing
Lunation
Day 6
Distance
405,439 km
Moonrise
12:16 PM
Moonset
7:50 PM

Next phases

First quarter
Tue, Nov 17, 11:48 AMin 3 days
Full moon
Tue, Nov 24, 2:54 PMin 10 days
Last quarter
Tue, Dec 1, 6:09 AMin 17 days
New moon
Wed, Dec 9, 12:52 AMin 25 days

Below the horizon now. Drawn as you see it from London, at 7:18 AM. The ring is graduated in degrees from celestial north. The red mark points toward the Sun.

  1. Nov14
  2. Sun15
  3. Mon16
  4. Tue17
  5. Wed18
  6. Thu19
  7. Fri20
  8. Sat21
  9. Sun22
  10. Mon23
  11. Tue24
  12. Wed25
  13. Thu26
  14. Fri27
  15. Sat28
  16. Sun29
  17. Mon30
  18. Dec1
  19. Wed2
  20. Thu3
  21. Fri4
  22. Sat5
  23. Sun6
  24. Mon7
  25. Tue8
  26. Wed9
  27. Thu10
  28. Fri11
  29. Sat12
  30. Sun13

Total solar eclipse of 2 August 2027

261days
02hours
47min
46s

Up to 6 min 23 s of darkness from southern Spain to Egypt and Arabia: the longest totality on land this century.

Open the map of the path

Coming up

Annular solar eclipse
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Total solar eclipse
Penumbral lunar eclipse

The instruments

How this almanac works

An almanac that does the arithmetic in your browser: the Moon’s phase, the eclipses to come and the planets above your horizon.

Every figure on this site is computed, not copied. Phases, rise and set times, planet positions and eclipse contacts come from Astronomy Engine, an open-source library accurate to about one arcminute, running on your own device. That is why the answers match your position without an account, and why your location never reaches a server.

The pages are built for looking up one thing quickly: is the Moon full tonight, when does it rise, how long does totality last in my town. Each page then explains how the number is obtained, so you can check it against an observatory almanac.