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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 locationThursday, 5 November 2026 · 11:46 · London

Tonight's verdict

Poor Moon-viewing conditions

Weather-adjusted
24/100
Viewing score 24 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Poor

No useful viewing window in the next 24 hours

Phase

Waning Crescent

Illumination

15%

Next moonrise

Tomorrow 03:50

Next moonset

Today 14:43

View tonight's outlookHow the score works

Open-Meteo hourly forecast for 12:00 local · cached up to 20 min

Current moon
Phase-correct

Waning Crescent · 15% lit

Altitude 24° · Azimuth 230° · 385,284 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
24/100
Viewing score 24 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

Mostly cloudy

79%

Cloud cover · 2% chance of precipitation

11°C nowValid 12:00 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

Thu 5 Nov · 12:00Moon 23°Cloud 79%Score 23 (Poor)Daylight
0°30°60°90°NOW · 11:4612:0015:0018:0021:0000:0003:0006:0009:0012:0012:00 · Moon 23° · Cloud 79% · Score 2313:00 · Moon 15° · Cloud 93% · Score 1114:00 · Moon 6° · Cloud 86% · Score 815:00 · Moon -3° · Cloud 86% · Score 016:00 · Moon -12° · Cloud 78% · Score 017:00 · Moon -21° · Cloud 86% · Score 018:00 · Moon -29° · Cloud 61% · Score 019:00 · Moon -36° · Cloud 98% · Score 020:00 · Moon -41° · Cloud 98% · Score 021:00 · Moon -43° · Cloud 97% · Score 022:00 · Moon -42° · Cloud 75% · Score 023:00 · Moon -38° · Cloud 76% · Score 000:00 · Moon -32° · Cloud 100% · Score 001:00 · Moon -25° · Cloud 57% · Score 002:00 · Moon -16° · Cloud 99% · Score 003:00 · Moon -8° · Cloud 100% · Score 004:00 · Moon 1° · Cloud 100% · Score 2005:00 · Moon 9° · Cloud 100% · Score 2406:00 · Moon 17° · Cloud 100% · Score 1507:00 · Moon 23° · Cloud 100% · Score 1408:00 · Moon 28° · Cloud 100% · Score 1709:00 · Moon 30° · Cloud 100% · Score 1910:00 · Moon 30° · Cloud 100% · Score 1811:00 · Moon 27° · Cloud 100% · Score 1612:00 · Moon 22° · Cloud 100% · Score 13
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
Thu 5 Nov 12:0023 degrees79%2%23 out of 100Daylight
Thu 5 Nov 13:0015 degrees93%1%11 out of 100Daylight
Thu 5 Nov 14:006 degrees86%0%8 out of 100Daylight
Thu 5 Nov 15:00-3 degrees86%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 5 Nov 16:00-12 degrees78%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 5 Nov 17:00-21 degrees86%0%0 out of 100Twilight
Thu 5 Nov 18:00-29 degrees61%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 5 Nov 19:00-36 degrees98%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 5 Nov 20:00-41 degrees98%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 5 Nov 21:00-43 degrees97%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 5 Nov 22:00-42 degrees75%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 5 Nov 23:00-38 degrees76%0%0 out of 100Night
Fri 6 Nov 00:00-32 degrees100%0%0 out of 100Night
Fri 6 Nov 01:00-25 degrees57%0%0 out of 100Night
Fri 6 Nov 02:00-16 degrees99%1%0 out of 100Night
Fri 6 Nov 03:00-8 degrees100%2%0 out of 100Night
Fri 6 Nov 04:001 degrees100%3%20 out of 100Night
Fri 6 Nov 05:009 degrees100%4%24 out of 100Night
Fri 6 Nov 06:0017 degrees100%6%15 out of 100Night
Fri 6 Nov 07:0023 degrees100%8%14 out of 100Daylight
Fri 6 Nov 08:0028 degrees100%10%17 out of 100Daylight
Fri 6 Nov 09:0030 degrees100%12%19 out of 100Daylight
Fri 6 Nov 10:0030 degrees100%13%18 out of 100Daylight
Fri 6 Nov 11:0027 degrees100%15%16 out of 100Daylight
Fri 6 Nov 12:0022 degrees100%14%13 out of 100Daylight

Why this recommendation

  • Waning Crescent at 15% illumination. Only a slim crescent is lit; look soon after sunset or before sunrise, close to the horizon.
  • The Moon climbs to about 30° around 09:00.
  • Next moonrise: Fri 6 Nov at 03:50.
Limitations & methodShow
  • The Moon stays low, so buildings, trees and haze may block the view.
  • 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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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
Mare TranquillitatisMARE · NASA / LRO SURFACE

Mare Tranquillitatis

Lunar sea

8.5°N · 31.4°E

A large basalt plain on the near side. Its relatively uniform dark surface makes it a useful reference for comparing the brighter highlands around it.

Best phase

Any phase; best contrast near full Moon

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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