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Is tonight a Moon night?

A daylight Moon window. The best window is 09:00–10:00; cloud is the main uncertainty.

London· United KingdomDefault locationWednesday, 4 November 2026 · 03:40 · London

Tonight's verdict

A daylight Moon window

Weather-adjusted
55/100
Viewing score 55 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Daylight viewing.

Fair

Best window 09:00–10:00 · 1 hr · Fair (55/100)

Look SSW · 41° above the horizon · 1 hr

Phase

Waning Crescent

Illumination

26%

Next moonrise

Tomorrow 02:33

Next moonset

Today 14:31

View tonight's outlookHow the score works

Open-Meteo hourly forecast for 04:00 local · cached up to 20 min

Current moon
Phase-correct

Waning Crescent · 26% lit

Altitude 21° · Azimuth 107° · 380,580 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

09:00–10:00

1 hr · look SSW · 41° altitude · 34% mean cloud

Wed 4 Nov · local time in London

DaylightSee it on the timeline

Viewing score

Cloud-weighted, per hour

Weather
55/100
Viewing score 55 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Daylight viewing.

Fair

Some cloud around 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

Daylight

09:00–10:00

1 hr · look SSW · 41° altitude

Starts Wed 4 Nov 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

Mostly cloudy

70%

Cloud cover · 0% chance of precipitation

9°C nowValid 04:00 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

Wed 4 Nov · 09:00Moon 41°Cloud 34%Score 55 (Fair)Daylight
0°30°60°90°BEST WINDOWNOW · 03:4004:0007:0010:0013:0016:0019:0022:0001:0004:0004:00 · Moon 23° · Cloud 70% · Score 4805:00 · Moon 31° · Cloud 92% · Score 4306:00 · Moon 37° · Cloud 99% · Score 3007:00 · Moon 42° · Cloud 100% · Score 2708:00 · Moon 43° · Cloud 100% · Score 2809:00 · Moon 41° · Cloud 34% · Score 5510:00 · Moon 37° · Cloud 87% · Score 3011:00 · Moon 30° · Cloud 74% · Score 3112:00 · Moon 22° · Cloud 81% · Score 2213:00 · Moon 13° · Cloud 76% · Score 1814:00 · Moon 4° · Cloud 57% · Score 2015:00 · Moon -5° · Cloud 63% · Score 016:00 · Moon -13° · Cloud 53% · Score 017:00 · Moon -22° · Cloud 86% · Score 018:00 · Moon -29° · Cloud 95% · Score 019:00 · Moon -34° · Cloud 99% · Score 020:00 · Moon -36° · Cloud 99% · Score 021:00 · Moon -36° · Cloud 100% · Score 022:00 · Moon -34° · Cloud 95% · Score 023:00 · Moon -29° · Cloud 98% · Score 000:00 · Moon -22° · Cloud 98% · Score 001:00 · Moon -14° · Cloud 100% · Score 002:00 · Moon -5° · Cloud 100% · Score 003:00 · Moon 3° · Cloud 92% · Score 2404:00 · Moon 12° · Cloud 87% · Score 32
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
Wed 4 Nov 04:0023 degrees70%0%48 out of 100Night
Wed 4 Nov 05:0031 degrees92%0%43 out of 100Night
Wed 4 Nov 06:0037 degrees99%0%30 out of 100Night
Wed 4 Nov 07:0042 degrees100%0%27 out of 100Daylight
Wed 4 Nov 08:0043 degrees100%0%28 out of 100Daylight
Wed 4 Nov 09:0041 degrees34%0%55 out of 100Daylight
Wed 4 Nov 10:0037 degrees87%0%30 out of 100Daylight
Wed 4 Nov 11:0030 degrees74%0%31 out of 100Daylight
Wed 4 Nov 12:0022 degrees81%0%22 out of 100Daylight
Wed 4 Nov 13:0013 degrees76%0%18 out of 100Daylight
Wed 4 Nov 14:004 degrees57%0%20 out of 100Daylight
Wed 4 Nov 15:00-5 degrees63%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Wed 4 Nov 16:00-13 degrees53%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Wed 4 Nov 17:00-22 degrees86%0%0 out of 100Twilight
Wed 4 Nov 18:00-29 degrees95%0%0 out of 100Night
Wed 4 Nov 19:00-34 degrees99%1%0 out of 100Night
Wed 4 Nov 20:00-36 degrees99%2%0 out of 100Night
Wed 4 Nov 21:00-36 degrees100%4%0 out of 100Night
Wed 4 Nov 22:00-34 degrees95%6%0 out of 100Night
Wed 4 Nov 23:00-29 degrees98%9%0 out of 100Night
Thu 5 Nov 00:00-22 degrees98%10%0 out of 100Night
Thu 5 Nov 01:00-14 degrees100%7%0 out of 100Night
Thu 5 Nov 02:00-5 degrees100%3%0 out of 100Night
Thu 5 Nov 03:003 degrees92%0%24 out of 100Night
Thu 5 Nov 04:0012 degrees87%0%32 out of 100Night

Why this recommendation

  • Waning Crescent at 26% illumination. The terminator gives the strongest crater shadows for the next few nights.
  • The Moon climbs to about 43° around 08:00.
  • Next moonrise: Thu 5 Nov at 02:33.
  • Forecast cloud cover averages 34% during the best window, with a 0% chance of precipitation.
Limitations & methodShow
  • The Moon is above the horizon in daylight. The daylight score is capped because sky contrast is much lower.
  • 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

Next lunar event

Calculated phase · local to London

All events

Mon

9

Nov

New Moon

07:02 local · Mon 9 Nov

Not visibleMoon at -5° altitude

New Moon occurs at 07:02 local time in London on 9 November. The Moon passes near the Sun in the sky, so its Earth-facing side is unlit. Dark skies make this a good period for deep-sky observing.

Event details Not visible — lost in the Sun's glare

Discover the Moon

Daily featured lunar feature

LRO surface
GrimaldiCRATER · NASA / LRO SURFACE

Grimaldi

Crater

5.2°S · 68.6°W · 222 km

A dark-floored crater near the western limb. Libration can bring it slightly closer to the centre of the disc, making its flooded floor easier to inspect.

Best phase

Waning gibbous to 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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