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Is tonight a Moon night?

Poor Moon-viewing conditions. No useful viewing window in the next 24 hours.

London· United KingdomDefault locationSaturday, 14 November 2026 · 23:59 · London

Tonight's verdict

Poor Moon-viewing conditions

Weather-adjusted
26/100
Viewing score 26 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Poor

No useful viewing window in the next 24 hours

Phase

Waxing Crescent

Illumination

27%

Next moonrise

Tomorrow 12:40

Next moonset

Tomorrow 21:02

View tonight's outlookHow the score works

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

Current moon
Phase-correct

Waxing Crescent · 27% lit

Altitude -35° · Azimuth 275° · 404,739 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

Viewing score

Cloud-weighted, per hour

Weather
26/100
Viewing score 26 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Poor

Score reflects cloud, altitude and darkness.

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

No qualifying window

No useful viewing window in the next 24 hours

A window requires at least two consecutive hours with a score of 50 or better and the Moon above the horizon.

Weather snapshot

Hourly forecast for the selected location

Open-Meteo

Overcast

100%

Cloud cover · 0% chance of precipitation

5°C nowValid 00:00 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 15 Nov · 00:00Moon -35°Cloud 100%Score 0 (Poor)Night
0°30°60°90°NOW · 23:5900:0003:0006:0009:0012:0015:0018:0021:0000:0000:00 · Moon -35° · Cloud 100% · Score 001:00 · Moon -43° · Cloud 100% · Score 002:00 · Moon -51° · Cloud 77% · Score 003:00 · Moon -58° · Cloud 100% · Score 004:00 · Moon -61° · Cloud 56% · Score 005:00 · Moon -61° · Cloud 73% · Score 006:00 · Moon -56° · Cloud 94% · Score 007:00 · Moon -49° · Cloud 95% · Score 008:00 · Moon -41° · Cloud 99% · Score 009:00 · Moon -32° · Cloud 100% · Score 010:00 · Moon -23° · Cloud 98% · Score 011:00 · Moon -14° · Cloud 100% · Score 012:00 · Moon -5° · Cloud 100% · Score 013:00 · Moon 2° · Cloud 100% · Score 014:00 · Moon 8° · Cloud 100% · Score 415:00 · Moon 13° · Cloud 95% · Score 716:00 · Moon 16° · Cloud 86% · Score 917:00 · Moon 17° · Cloud 100% · Score 1218:00 · Moon 15° · Cloud 100% · Score 2619:00 · Moon 12° · Cloud 100% · Score 2620:00 · Moon 6° · Cloud 100% · Score 2221:00 · Moon 0° · Cloud 100% · Score 2022:00 · Moon -8° · Cloud 100% · Score 023:00 · Moon -16° · Cloud 91% · Score 000:00 · Moon -25° · Cloud 80% · 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 15 Nov 00:00-35 degrees100%0%0 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 01:00-43 degrees100%0%0 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 02:00-51 degrees77%0%0 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 03:00-58 degrees100%0%0 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 04:00-61 degrees56%1%0 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 05:00-61 degrees73%3%0 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 06:00-56 degrees94%6%0 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 07:00-49 degrees95%9%0 out of 100Twilight
Sun 15 Nov 08:00-41 degrees99%14%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 15 Nov 09:00-32 degrees100%24%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 15 Nov 10:00-23 degrees98%44%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 15 Nov 11:00-14 degrees100%69%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 15 Nov 12:00-5 degrees100%86%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 15 Nov 13:002 degrees100%90%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 15 Nov 14:008 degrees100%85%4 out of 100Daylight
Sun 15 Nov 15:0013 degrees95%76%7 out of 100Daylight
Sun 15 Nov 16:0016 degrees86%60%9 out of 100Daylight
Sun 15 Nov 17:0017 degrees100%39%12 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 18:0015 degrees100%25%26 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 19:0012 degrees100%25%26 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 20:006 degrees100%32%22 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 21:000 degrees100%35%20 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 22:00-8 degrees100%28%0 out of 100Night
Sun 15 Nov 23:00-16 degrees91%18%0 out of 100Night
Mon 16 Nov 00:00-25 degrees80%10%0 out of 100Night

Why this recommendation

  • Waxing Crescent at 27% illumination. The terminator gives the strongest crater shadows for the next few nights.
  • The Moon climbs to about 17° around 17:00.
  • Next moonrise: Sun 15 Nov at 12:40.
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

The next event. The next detail.

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.

Two ways to go deeper

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Calculated phase · local to London

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Tue

17

Nov

First Quarter Moon

11:48 local · Tue 17 Nov

Below horizonMoon at -13° altitude

First Quarter Moon occurs at 11:48 local time in London on 17 November. Half of the visible disc is lit, and the terminator cuts across the middle. Long shadows make craters along the dividing line stand out.

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

Discover the Moon

Daily featured lunar feature

LRO surface
AristarchusCRATER · NASA / LRO SURFACE

Aristarchus

Crater

23.7°N · 47.4°W · 40 km

The brightest large crater on the near side. Its high-albedo floor stands out in Oceanus Procellarum, especially when the surrounding terrain is lit obliquely.

Best phase

Waxing gibbous or waning gibbous

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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