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Is tonight a Moon night?

A workable Moon night. The best window is 04:00–10:00; cloud is the main uncertainty.

London· United KingdomDefault locationSunday, 1 November 2026 · 08:58 · London

Tonight's verdict

A workable Moon night

Weather-adjusted
58/100
Viewing score 58 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Fair

Best window 04:00–10:00 · 6 hrs · Fair (58/100)

Look SE · 50° above the horizon · 6 hrs

Phase

Last Quarter

Illumination

56%

Next moonrise

Today 22:28

Next moonset

Today 13:42

View tonight's outlookHow the score works

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

Current moon
Phase-correct

Last Quarter · 56% lit

Altitude 41° · Azimuth 251° · 371,069 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

04:00–10:00

6 hrs · look SE · 50° altitude · 32% mean cloud

Mon 2 Nov · local time in London

NightSee it on the timeline

Viewing score

Cloud-weighted, per hour

Weather
58/100
Viewing score 58 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night 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

Night

04:00–10:00

6 hrs · look SE · 50° altitude

Starts Mon 2 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

Overcast

100%

Cloud cover · 0% chance of precipitation

10°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

Mon 2 Nov · 04:00Moon 46°Cloud 94%Score 53 (Fair)Night
0°30°60°90°BEST WINDOWNOW · 08:5809:0012:0015:0018:0021:0000:0003:0006:0009:0009:00 · Moon 41° · Cloud 100% · Score 2910:00 · Moon 32° · Cloud 97% · Score 2311:00 · Moon 22° · Cloud 89% · Score 2012:00 · Moon 13° · Cloud 84% · Score 1513:00 · Moon 5° · Cloud 97% · Score 314:00 · Moon -2° · Cloud 98% · Score 015:00 · Moon -9° · Cloud 93% · Score 016:00 · Moon -14° · Cloud 98% · Score 017:00 · Moon -18° · Cloud 74% · Score 018:00 · Moon -19° · Cloud 91% · Score 019:00 · Moon -18° · Cloud 95% · Score 020:00 · Moon -15° · Cloud 98% · Score 021:00 · Moon -10° · Cloud 87% · Score 022:00 · Moon -4° · Cloud 15% · Score 023:00 · Moon 4° · Cloud 100% · Score 2000:00 · Moon 12° · Cloud 100% · Score 2601:00 · Moon 20° · Cloud 100% · Score 3302:00 · Moon 29° · Cloud 100% · Score 4003:00 · Moon 38° · Cloud 100% · Score 4604:00 · Moon 46° · Cloud 94% · Score 5305:00 · Moon 52° · Cloud 96% · Score 5206:00 · Moon 55° · Cloud 0% · Score 8007:00 · Moon 54° · Cloud 0% · Score 5508:00 · Moon 50° · Cloud 0% · Score 5509:00 · Moon 44° · 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
Sun 1 Nov 09:0041 degrees100%0%29 out of 100Daylight
Sun 1 Nov 10:0032 degrees97%0%23 out of 100Daylight
Sun 1 Nov 11:0022 degrees89%0%20 out of 100Daylight
Sun 1 Nov 12:0013 degrees84%0%15 out of 100Daylight
Sun 1 Nov 13:005 degrees97%0%3 out of 100Daylight
Sun 1 Nov 14:00-2 degrees98%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 1 Nov 15:00-9 degrees93%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 1 Nov 16:00-14 degrees98%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sun 1 Nov 17:00-18 degrees74%0%0 out of 100Twilight
Sun 1 Nov 18:00-19 degrees91%0%0 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 19:00-18 degrees95%0%0 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 20:00-15 degrees98%0%0 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 21:00-10 degrees87%0%0 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 22:00-4 degrees15%13%0 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 23:004 degrees100%31%20 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 00:0012 degrees100%41%26 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 01:0020 degrees100%36%33 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 02:0029 degrees100%23%40 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 03:0038 degrees100%12%46 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 04:0046 degrees94%8%53 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 05:0052 degrees96%6%52 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 06:0055 degrees0%4%80 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 07:0054 degrees0%2%55 out of 100Daylight
Mon 2 Nov 08:0050 degrees0%1%55 out of 100Daylight
Mon 2 Nov 09:0044 degrees0%0%55 out of 100Daylight

Why this recommendation

  • Last Quarter at 56% illumination. The terminator gives the strongest crater shadows for the next few nights.
  • The Moon climbs to about 55° around 06:00.
  • Next moonrise: Sun 1 Nov at 22:28.
  • Forecast cloud cover averages 32% during the best window, with a 4% 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

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

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Sun

1

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
Mare ImbriumMARE · NASA / LRO SURFACE

Mare Imbrium

Lunar sea

32.8°N · 15.6°W

A vast impact basin flooded by lava, ringed by the lunar Alps and Apennines. Its smooth interior and surrounding mountain arcs are visible in small telescopes.

Best phase

First quarter, as the terminator crosses the basin

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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