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The Moon

The Moon over London: tonight, this month and on any date

Every Moon here is calculated on our server for a real city and time, then drawn. Calculated, not a photo.

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Tonight’s Moon · Sat 7 Nov · London

Waning crescent

Waning crescent · 2% lit at 9 pm

Now: 1% lit (09:32 in London, when this page was made)

Moonrise, London
Sun 06:24, southeast
Moonset, London
15:09
Next Full Moon
Moon age at 9 pm
28.2 days since New Moon

Drawn for the sky over London at 9 pm; the Moon is below the horizon there at that hour. Calculated, not a photo. Times are London time (Europe/London, UTC now).

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Next four Moon phases

In London time (Europe/London), to the nearest minute, each with the UTC offset in force on its date. Each phase is one instant, the same everywhere; only the local date and time differ. The icons show the lit side as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. Calculated, not a photo.

  1. New MoonUTC
  2. First QuarterUTC
  3. Full MoonUTC
  4. Last QuarterUTC

The Moon in November 2026

Each phase sits on its date in London (Europe/London), with its time to the nearest minute. Each day shows the share lit at 9 pm, drawn with the lit side as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. Calculated, not a photo.

Moon phases in November 2026, London time
MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday
150% lit at 9 pmLast Quarter at
239% lit at 9 pm328% lit at 9 pm419% lit at 9 pm512% lit at 9 pm66% lit at 9 pm72% lit at 9 pm8Today0% lit at 9 pm
90% lit at 9 pmNew Moon at 102% lit at 9 pm116% lit at 9 pm1212% lit at 9 pm1318% lit at 9 pm1426% lit at 9 pm1535% lit at 9 pm
1644% lit at 9 pm1754% lit at 9 pmFirst Quarter at 1864% lit at 9 pm1973% lit at 9 pm2082% lit at 9 pm2190% lit at 9 pm2296% lit at 9 pm
2399% lit at 9 pm24100% lit at 9 pmFull Moon at 2598% lit at 9 pm2693% lit at 9 pm2785% lit at 9 pm2876% lit at 9 pm2965% lit at 9 pm
3054% lit at 9 pm

January 1900 to December 2100. Where the box takes text, write the month as 2026-10.

The Moon on a date

A birthday, a first date, a wedding: see the Moon that night at 9 pm local time, drawn for the city you choose, and keep it as a card. The date and city go to our server in the page address, because the Moon is calculated there. The page asks for nothing else, and never for your location.

Any date from 1 January 1900 to 31 December 2100.

The card shows

The day, the month, the phase and the hemisphere are always on the card. The year and the city stay off unless you tick them. Names and labels are never drawn.

How these times and Moons are made

  • Our server calculates every Moon, phase time, moonrise and moonset, and sends the finished page. Your browser only keeps the clock digits ticking and keeps your saved cities on this device.
  • The city, month and date you choose are in the page address, so our server receives them; that is how it calculates. Your saved city references, device time-zone name and current offset are posted to our server, which computes the rows and stores nothing. The saved list and labels stay on this device; labels are never sent. This site never asks for your location.
  • Clock and Moon times follow our server’s time-zone rules. Your browser only ticks the clock instants the server supplies. The rules can be out of date where a government changed its clocks recently. For Winnipeg, Casablanca, Vancouver and Edmonton, the page checks every date it shows and warns when a time there may be an hour off.
  • “Tonight” runs from noon today to noon tomorrow in the chosen city, so at 1 am it still means the night in progress. The Moon’s shape and share lit are calculated for 9 pm.
  • Phase times use Jean Meeus’s method (Astronomical Algorithms, chapter 49), shown to the nearest minute. An automated check compares six 2026 phase times with the U.S. Naval Observatory’s published times and requires agreement within two minutes.
  • Moonrise and moonset are for the centre of the city shown, from rounded reference coordinates, and are good to a few minutes there. Elsewhere in the same time zone they can differ by an hour or more, so choose the city nearest you.
  • Tonight’s Moon and the date card are drawn from the share lit and the angle of the bright edge in that city’s sky at 9 pm. The month grid and the phase icons show the lit side as seen from that city’s hemisphere. Calculated, not a photo.