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Is tonight a Moon night?

A workable Moon night. The best window is 18:00–03:00; cloud cover is likely to be the limiting factor.

London· United KingdomDefault locationSunday, 25 October 2026 · 07:28 · London

Tonight's verdict

A workable Moon night

Weather-adjusted
64/100
Viewing score 64 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Fair

Best window 18:00–03:00 · 9 hrs · Fair (64/100)

Look E · 41° above the horizon · 9 hrs

Phase

Waxing Gibbous

Illumination

99%

Next moonrise

Today 16:01

Next moonset

Tomorrow 07:16

View tonight's outlookHow the score works

Open-Meteo hourly forecast for 07:00 local · cached up to 20 min

Current moon
Phase-correct

Waxing Gibbous · 99% lit

Altitude -13° · Azimuth 308° · 372,239 km

Northern-hemisphere orientation · surface detail schematic

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

18:00–03:00

9 hrs · look E · 41° altitude · 66% mean cloud

Sun 25 Oct · local time in London

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Viewing score

Cloud-weighted, per hour

Weather
64/100
Viewing score 64 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Fair

Cloud likely to interfere

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

18:00–03:00

9 hrs · look E · 41° altitude

Starts Sun 25 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

8%

Cloud cover · 0% chance of precipitation

11°C nowValid 07:00 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

Sun 25 Oct · 18:00Moon 17°Cloud 0%Score 66 (Good)Night
0°30°60°90°BEST WINDOWNOW · 07:2808:0011:0014:0017:0020:0023:0002:0005:0008:0008:00 · Moon -16° · Cloud 89% · Score 009:00 · Moon -22° · Cloud 4% · Score 010:00 · Moon -25° · Cloud 2% · Score 011:00 · Moon -26° · Cloud 17% · Score 012:00 · Moon -25° · Cloud 52% · Score 013:00 · Moon -21° · Cloud 71% · Score 014:00 · Moon -16° · Cloud 7% · Score 015:00 · Moon -9° · Cloud 0% · Score 016:00 · Moon 0° · Cloud 15% · Score 017:00 · Moon 8° · Cloud 1% · Score 4918:00 · Moon 17° · Cloud 0% · Score 6619:00 · Moon 26° · Cloud 0% · Score 8420:00 · Moon 35° · Cloud 0% · Score 9221:00 · Moon 43° · Cloud 100% · Score 5322:00 · Moon 49° · Cloud 93% · Score 5823:00 · Moon 53° · Cloud 100% · Score 5500:00 · Moon 53° · Cloud 100% · Score 5501:00 · Moon 50° · Cloud 100% · Score 5502:00 · Moon 44° · Cloud 100% · Score 5403:00 · Moon 36° · Cloud 100% · Score 4704:00 · Moon 27° · Cloud 100% · Score 4005:00 · Moon 18° · Cloud 100% · Score 3006:00 · Moon 10° · Cloud 100% · Score 707:00 · Moon 2° · Cloud 100% · Score 008:00 · Moon -6° · Cloud 100% · Score 0
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
Sun 25 Oct 08:00-16 degrees89%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 25 Oct 09:00-22 degrees4%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 25 Oct 10:00-25 degrees2%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 25 Oct 11:00-26 degrees17%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 25 Oct 12:00-25 degrees52%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 25 Oct 13:00-21 degrees71%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 25 Oct 14:00-16 degrees7%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 25 Oct 15:00-9 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 25 Oct 16:000 degrees15%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 25 Oct 17:008 degrees1%0%49 out of 100Twilight
Sun 25 Oct 18:0017 degrees0%0%66 out of 100Night
Sun 25 Oct 19:0026 degrees0%0%84 out of 100Night
Sun 25 Oct 20:0035 degrees0%0%92 out of 100Night
Sun 25 Oct 21:0043 degrees100%0%53 out of 100Night
Sun 25 Oct 22:0049 degrees93%0%58 out of 100Night
Sun 25 Oct 23:0053 degrees100%0%55 out of 100Night
Mon 26 Oct 00:0053 degrees100%0%55 out of 100Night
Mon 26 Oct 01:0050 degrees100%0%55 out of 100Night
Mon 26 Oct 02:0044 degrees100%0%54 out of 100Night
Mon 26 Oct 03:0036 degrees100%0%47 out of 100Night
Mon 26 Oct 04:0027 degrees100%3%40 out of 100Night
Mon 26 Oct 05:0018 degrees100%7%30 out of 100Night
Mon 26 Oct 06:0010 degrees100%16%7 out of 100Night
Mon 26 Oct 07:002 degrees100%33%0 out of 100Daylight
Mon 26 Oct 08:00-6 degrees100%55%0 out of 100Daylight

Why this recommendation

  • Waxing Gibbous at 99% illumination. A bright Moon is easy to find, but head-on sunlight reduces surface contrast.
  • The Moon climbs to about 53° around 00:00.
  • Next moonrise: Sun 25 Oct at 16:01.
  • Forecast cloud cover averages 66% 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.
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Full Moon

04:12 local · Mon 26 Oct

Above horizonMoon at 25° altitude

Full Moon occurs at 04:12 local time in London on 26 October. The Moon is opposite the Sun and fully illuminated. It is easy to see all night, but surface contrast is lowest because sunlight is nearly head-on.

Event details Above the horizon (25°) at the exact moment

Discover the Moon

Daily featured lunar feature

Map detail
Apollo 11 landing siteLANDING-SITE · SCHEMATIC MAP DETAIL

Apollo 11 landing site

Landing site

0.7°N · 23.5°E

The Sea of Tranquility landing site, visited by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in July 1969. The hardware is far too small to see from Earth, but the surrounding mare is visible.

Best phase

Any phase; use a map to locate the region

Explore the Moon NASA Apollo mission documentation

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. MoonScan's own lunar map and feature art are generated schematics, not photographs.

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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