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Is tonight a Moon night?

A good Moon night. The best window is 23:00–10:00; cloud cover looks cooperative.

London· United KingdomDefault locationFriday, 30 October 2026 · 08:51 · London

Tonight's verdict

A good Moon night

Weather-adjusted
77/100
Viewing score 77 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Good

Best window 23:00–10:00 · 11 hrs · Good (77/100)

Look E · 48° above the horizon · 11 hrs

Phase

Waning Gibbous

Illumination

77%

Next moonrise

Today 19:36

Next moonset

Today 12:33

View tonight's outlookHow the score works

Open-Meteo hourly forecast for 09:00 local · cached up to 20 min

Current moon
Phase-correct

Waning Gibbous · 77% lit

Altitude 28° · Azimuth 278° · 365,944 km

Northern-hemisphere orientation · NASA LRO surface

Tonight's outlook

The next 24 hours, without the guesswork

A deterministic viewing score, a recommended window, and the weather that could change the plan. All times are local to London.

Read the scoring method

Best viewing window

23:00–10:00

11 hrs · look E · 48° altitude · 12% mean cloud

Fri 30 Oct · local time in London

NightSee it on the timeline

Viewing score

Cloud-weighted, per hour

Weather
77/100
Viewing score 77 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Good

Mostly clear during the best window

Not a scientific measurement. The index favours a Moon that is easy to see, not necessarily the sharpest surface detail.

Best time to look

Best contiguous window in the next 24 hours

Night

23:00–10:00

11 hrs · look E · 48° altitude

Starts Fri 30 Oct local time. The window is the longest qualifying run at or above 50/100, selected by mean score.

Weather snapshot

Hourly forecast for the selected location

Open-Meteo

Clear

0%

Cloud cover · 0% chance of precipitation

11°C nowValid 09:00 local

Moon altitude & cloud cover

Next 24 hours · local time · cloud bars rise from the horizon

Hover or focus an hour for details

Moon altitude Cloud cover Daylight / twilight Now

Weather: Open-Meteo

Fri 30 Oct · 23:00Moon 26°Cloud 52%Score 59 (Fair)Night
0°30°60°90°BEST WINDOWNOW · 08:5109:0012:0015:0018:0021:0000:0003:0006:0009:0009:00 · Moon 27° · Cloud 0% · Score 5510:00 · Moon 18° · Cloud 0% · Score 5511:00 · Moon 10° · Cloud 0% · Score 5112:00 · Moon 3° · Cloud 0% · Score 4513:00 · Moon -3° · Cloud 0% · Score 014:00 · Moon -8° · Cloud 0% · Score 015:00 · Moon -11° · Cloud 0% · Score 016:00 · Moon -12° · Cloud 0% · Score 017:00 · Moon -11° · Cloud 0% · Score 018:00 · Moon -8° · Cloud 6% · Score 019:00 · Moon -4° · Cloud 81% · Score 020:00 · Moon 2° · Cloud 73% · Score 3221:00 · Moon 9° · Cloud 88% · Score 3022:00 · Moon 17° · Cloud 77% · Score 4123:00 · Moon 26° · Cloud 52% · Score 5900:00 · Moon 34° · Cloud 11% · Score 8501:00 · Moon 43° · Cloud 21% · Score 8702:00 · Moon 52° · Cloud 0% · Score 9803:00 · Moon 59° · Cloud 30% · Score 8404:00 · Moon 63° · Cloud 20% · Score 8905:00 · Moon 63° · Cloud 0% · Score 9706:00 · Moon 59° · Cloud 0% · Score 8107:00 · Moon 52° · Cloud 0% · Score 5508:00 · Moon 44° · Cloud 0% · Score 5509:00 · Moon 35° · Cloud 0% · Score 55
Moon altitude is in degrees above the horizon. Cloud-cover bars run from the bottom of the chart. The highlighted band is the recommended contiguous viewing window; the gold line marks the current local time. Times are local to the selected location.
Hourly Moon viewing forecast
Local timeMoon altitudeCloud coverPrecipitation chanceScoreLight
Fri 30 Oct 09:0027 degrees0%0%55 out of 100Daylight
Fri 30 Oct 10:0018 degrees0%0%55 out of 100Daylight
Fri 30 Oct 11:0010 degrees0%0%51 out of 100Daylight
Fri 30 Oct 12:003 degrees0%0%45 out of 100Daylight
Fri 30 Oct 13:00-3 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Fri 30 Oct 14:00-8 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Fri 30 Oct 15:00-11 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Fri 30 Oct 16:00-12 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Fri 30 Oct 17:00-11 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Twilight
Fri 30 Oct 18:00-8 degrees6%0%0 out of 100Night
Fri 30 Oct 19:00-4 degrees81%0%0 out of 100Night
Fri 30 Oct 20:002 degrees73%0%32 out of 100Night
Fri 30 Oct 21:009 degrees88%0%30 out of 100Night
Fri 30 Oct 22:0017 degrees77%0%41 out of 100Night
Fri 30 Oct 23:0026 degrees52%0%59 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 00:0034 degrees11%0%85 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 01:0043 degrees21%0%87 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 02:0052 degrees0%0%98 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 03:0059 degrees30%0%84 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 04:0063 degrees20%0%89 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 05:0063 degrees0%0%97 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 06:0059 degrees0%0%81 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 07:0052 degrees0%0%55 out of 100Daylight
Sat 31 Oct 08:0044 degrees0%0%55 out of 100Daylight
Sat 31 Oct 09:0035 degrees0%0%55 out of 100Daylight

Why this recommendation

  • Waning Gibbous at 77% illumination. The terminator gives the strongest crater shadows for the next few nights.
  • The Moon climbs to about 63° around 05:00.
  • Next moonrise: Fri 30 Oct at 19:36.
  • Forecast cloud cover averages 12% during the best window, with a 0% chance of precipitation.
Limitations & methodShow
  • The viewing score is a convenience index, not a scientific measurement of sky quality.
  • The Moon disc on this page is phase-correct but its orientation and surface detail are schematic; libration and parallactic angle are not modelled.
Full methodology →

Look ahead & look closer

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Phase events are calculated from the same ephemeris as the live view. Lunar features are a curated, phase-independent map — never presented as tonight's Moon.

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Nov

Last Quarter Moon

20:28 local · Sun 1 Nov

Below horizonMoon at -13° altitude

Last Quarter Moon occurs at 20:28 local time in London on 1 November. Half of the visible disc is lit on the opposite side from first quarter. Morning observers get the best view of the terminator.

Event details Below the horizon at the exact moment — look near moonrise or moonset

Discover the Moon

Daily featured lunar feature

LRO surface
TheophilusCRATER · NASA / LRO SURFACE

Theophilus

Crater

11.4°S · 26.4°E · 100 km

A large crater with a dramatic central mountain, adjoining Cyrillus and Catharina. The group sits on the western shore of Mare Nectaris.

Best phase

First quarter and last quarter

Explore the Moon IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature

Near-Earth neighbour

Earth has a tiny quasi-moon: 2025 PN7

Verified object
SUN2025 PN7EARTHMoonIllustrative orbit · not to scale · not a live position

2025 PN7 is a small near-Earth asteroid in a 1:1 resonance with Earth. It orbits the Sun on roughly the same schedule as our planet, so from Earth it appears to loop nearby. It is not a comet, not a meteor, and not a moon of the Moon.

  • Discovered by Pan-STARRS 1 and announced by the Minor Planet Center on 29 August 2025.
  • Estimated size is roughly 14–30 metres across; it is far too faint for the unaided eye.
  • Dynamical models classify it as a quasi-satellite. It will shift into a horseshoe orbit in about 120 years.
  • Its spectrum is consistent with a primitive B-type asteroid, not lunar ejecta.
Track its current orbit Source: ESA NEO Coordination Centre and Minor Planet Center

Sources & further reading

Images, references and discovery

Official archives for lunar imagery, surface data and current small-body orbits.

External links open the source directly. The Explore map, feature detail and live Moon disc use the public-domain NASA LRO near-side mosaic. Markers and graticule are MoonScan overlays.

The Moon, by the numbers

Six facts worth keeping

Figure sources: NASA and ESA

384,400 km

Mean distance

Light takes about 1.3 seconds to cross the gap between Earth and the Moon.

3,474.8 km

Diameter

Roughly one quarter of Earth's diameter — the Moon is a small world, not a tiny dot.

1.62 m/s²

Surface gravity

About one sixth of Earth's gravity, which is why Apollo astronauts could bound across the surface.

29.5 days

Phase cycle

The time from one new Moon to the next. The Moon's actual orbit around Earth takes 27.3 days.

3.8 cm/year

Drifting away

Lunar laser ranging shows the Moon receding from Earth by roughly the width of two fingers per year.

12

Moonwalkers

Apollo 11 through Apollo 17 put twelve people on the surface between 1969 and 1972.

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