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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 locationMonday, 9 November 2026 · 15:54 · London

Tonight's verdict

Poor Moon-viewing conditions

Weather-adjusted
6/100
Viewing score 6 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Daylight viewing.

Poor

No useful viewing window in the next 24 hours

Phase

New Moon

Illumination

0%

Next moonrise

Tomorrow 08:54

Next moonset

Tomorrow 16:14

View tonight's outlookHow the score works

Open-Meteo hourly forecast for 16:00 local · cached up to 20 min

Current moon
Phase-correct

New Moon · 0% lit

Altitude -1° · Azimuth 233° · 398,827 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
6/100
Viewing score 6 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Daylight 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

Partly cloudy

59%

Cloud cover · 0% chance of precipitation

10°C nowValid 16:00 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

Mon 9 Nov · 16:00Moon -2°Cloud 59%Score 0 (Poor)Daylight
0°30°60°90°NOW · 15:5416:0019:0022:0001:0004:0007:0010:0013:0016:0016:00 · Moon -2° · Cloud 59% · Score 017:00 · Moon -10° · Cloud 27% · Score 018:00 · Moon -18° · Cloud 64% · Score 019:00 · Moon -27° · Cloud 64% · Score 020:00 · Moon -36° · Cloud 50% · Score 021:00 · Moon -45° · Cloud 44% · Score 022:00 · Moon -53° · Cloud 9% · Score 023:00 · Moon -60° · Cloud 73% · Score 000:00 · Moon -63° · Cloud 60% · Score 001:00 · Moon -61° · Cloud 6% · Score 002:00 · Moon -56° · Cloud 41% · Score 003:00 · Moon -49° · Cloud 34% · Score 004:00 · Moon -41° · Cloud 0% · Score 005:00 · Moon -32° · Cloud 41% · Score 006:00 · Moon -23° · Cloud 5% · Score 007:00 · Moon -15° · Cloud 100% · Score 008:00 · Moon -7° · Cloud 22% · Score 009:00 · Moon 0° · Cloud 98% · Score 110:00 · Moon 6° · Cloud 100% · Score 211:00 · Moon 10° · Cloud 100% · Score 412:00 · Moon 12° · Cloud 100% · Score 613:00 · Moon 12° · Cloud 100% · Score 614:00 · Moon 10° · Cloud 100% · Score 515:00 · Moon 6° · Cloud 100% · Score 216:00 · Moon 1° · 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
Mon 9 Nov 16:00-2 degrees59%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Mon 9 Nov 17:00-10 degrees27%0%0 out of 100Twilight
Mon 9 Nov 18:00-18 degrees64%0%0 out of 100Night
Mon 9 Nov 19:00-27 degrees64%0%0 out of 100Night
Mon 9 Nov 20:00-36 degrees50%0%0 out of 100Night
Mon 9 Nov 21:00-45 degrees44%0%0 out of 100Night
Mon 9 Nov 22:00-53 degrees9%0%0 out of 100Night
Mon 9 Nov 23:00-60 degrees73%0%0 out of 100Night
Tue 10 Nov 00:00-63 degrees60%0%0 out of 100Night
Tue 10 Nov 01:00-61 degrees6%0%0 out of 100Night
Tue 10 Nov 02:00-56 degrees41%0%0 out of 100Night
Tue 10 Nov 03:00-49 degrees34%0%0 out of 100Night
Tue 10 Nov 04:00-41 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Night
Tue 10 Nov 05:00-32 degrees41%0%0 out of 100Night
Tue 10 Nov 06:00-23 degrees5%0%0 out of 100Night
Tue 10 Nov 07:00-15 degrees100%0%0 out of 100Twilight
Tue 10 Nov 08:00-7 degrees22%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Tue 10 Nov 09:000 degrees98%0%1 out of 100Daylight
Tue 10 Nov 10:006 degrees100%0%2 out of 100Daylight
Tue 10 Nov 11:0010 degrees100%0%4 out of 100Daylight
Tue 10 Nov 12:0012 degrees100%4%6 out of 100Daylight
Tue 10 Nov 13:0012 degrees100%12%6 out of 100Daylight
Tue 10 Nov 14:0010 degrees100%24%5 out of 100Daylight
Tue 10 Nov 15:006 degrees100%37%2 out of 100Daylight
Tue 10 Nov 16:001 degrees100%53%0 out of 100Daylight

Why this recommendation

  • New Moon at 0% illumination. Only a slim crescent is lit; look soon after sunset or before sunrise, close to the horizon.
  • The Moon climbs to about 12° around 13:00.
  • Next moonrise: Tue 10 Nov at 08:54.
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.

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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
Oceanus ProcellarumMARE · NASA / LRO SURFACE

Oceanus Procellarum

Lunar sea

18.4°N · 57.4°W

The largest of the lunar maria, stretching along the western near side. It contains bright rayed craters such as Aristarchus and Kepler.

Best phase

Waxing gibbous to 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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