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Is tonight a Moon night?

A good Moon night. The best window is 22:00–06:00; cloud is the main uncertainty.

London· United KingdomDefault locationSaturday, 31 October 2026 · 08:46 · London

Tonight's verdict

A good Moon night

Weather-adjusted
71/100
Viewing score 71 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Good

Best window 22:00–06:00 · 8 hrs · Good (71/100)

Look ENE · 35° above the horizon · 8 hrs

Phase

Waning Gibbous

Illumination

67%

Next moonrise

Today 21:00

Next moonset

Today 13:14

View tonight's outlookHow the score works

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

Current moon
Phase-correct

Waning Gibbous · 67% lit

Altitude 37° · Azimuth 264° · 368,166 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

22:00–06:00

8 hrs · look ENE · 35° altitude · 34% mean cloud

Sat 31 Oct · local time in London

NightSee it on the timeline

Viewing score

Cloud-weighted, per hour

Weather
71/100
Viewing score 71 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Good

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

22:00–06:00

8 hrs · look ENE · 35° altitude

Starts Sat 31 Oct 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

73%

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

Sat 31 Oct · 22:00Moon 6°Cloud 6%Score 65 (Good)Night
0°30°60°90°BEST WINDOWNOW · 08:4609:0012:0015:0018:0021:0000:0003:0006:0009:0009:00 · Moon 35° · Cloud 73% · Score 3710:00 · Moon 26° · Cloud 38% · Score 4511:00 · Moon 17° · Cloud 0% · Score 5512:00 · Moon 8° · Cloud 15% · Score 4313:00 · Moon 1° · Cloud 7% · Score 4214:00 · Moon -5° · Cloud 0% · Score 015:00 · Moon -10° · Cloud 0% · Score 016:00 · Moon -13° · Cloud 0% · Score 017:00 · Moon -15° · Cloud 0% · Score 018:00 · Moon -14° · Cloud 13% · Score 019:00 · Moon -11° · Cloud 27% · Score 020:00 · Moon -6° · Cloud 60% · Score 021:00 · Moon 0° · Cloud 0% · Score 022:00 · Moon 6° · Cloud 6% · Score 6523:00 · Moon 15° · Cloud 10% · Score 6900:00 · Moon 23° · Cloud 9% · Score 7601:00 · Moon 32° · Cloud 5% · Score 8502:00 · Moon 41° · Cloud 8% · Score 9003:00 · Moon 49° · Cloud 51% · Score 7404:00 · Moon 56° · Cloud 86% · Score 5805:00 · Moon 60° · Cloud 93% · Score 5406:00 · Moon 60° · Cloud 93% · Score 3907:00 · Moon 56° · Cloud 95% · Score 3408:00 · Moon 49° · Cloud 100% · Score 3209:00 · Moon 41° · Cloud 100% · Score 29
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
Sat 31 Oct 09:0035 degrees73%0%37 out of 100Daylight
Sat 31 Oct 10:0026 degrees38%0%45 out of 100Daylight
Sat 31 Oct 11:0017 degrees0%0%55 out of 100Daylight
Sat 31 Oct 12:008 degrees15%0%43 out of 100Daylight
Sat 31 Oct 13:001 degrees7%0%42 out of 100Daylight
Sat 31 Oct 14:00-5 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sat 31 Oct 15:00-10 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sat 31 Oct 16:00-13 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Sat 31 Oct 17:00-15 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Twilight
Sat 31 Oct 18:00-14 degrees13%0%0 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 19:00-11 degrees27%0%0 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 20:00-6 degrees60%0%0 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 21:000 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 22:006 degrees6%0%65 out of 100Night
Sat 31 Oct 23:0015 degrees10%0%69 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 00:0023 degrees9%0%76 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 01:0032 degrees5%0%85 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 02:0041 degrees8%0%90 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 03:0049 degrees51%0%74 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 04:0056 degrees86%0%58 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 05:0060 degrees93%0%54 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 06:0060 degrees93%0%39 out of 100Night
Sun 1 Nov 07:0056 degrees95%0%34 out of 100Daylight
Sun 1 Nov 08:0049 degrees100%0%32 out of 100Daylight
Sun 1 Nov 09:0041 degrees100%0%29 out of 100Daylight

Why this recommendation

  • Waning Gibbous at 67% illumination. The terminator gives the strongest crater shadows for the next few nights.
  • The Moon climbs to about 60° around 05:00.
  • Next moonrise: Sat 31 Oct at 21:00.
  • Forecast cloud cover averages 34% during the best window, with a 0% 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.

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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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