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Is tonight a Moon night?

A workable Moon night. The best window is 02:00–06:00; cloud is the main uncertainty.

London· United KingdomDefault locationMonday, 2 November 2026 · 08:51 · London

Tonight's verdict

A workable Moon night

Weather-adjusted
61/100
Viewing score 61 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Fair

Best window 02:00–06:00 · 4 hrs · Fair (61/100)

Look E · 30° above the horizon · 4 hrs

Phase

Last Quarter

Illumination

44%

Next moonrise

Today 23:53

Next moonset

Today 14:02

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 · 44% lit

Altitude 45° · Azimuth 232° · 374,332 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

02:00–06:00

4 hrs · look E · 30° altitude · 54% mean cloud

Tue 3 Nov · local time in London

NightSee it on the timeline

Viewing score

Cloud-weighted, per hour

Weather
61/100
Viewing score 61 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

02:00–06:00

4 hrs · look E · 30° altitude

Starts Tue 3 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

82%

Cloud cover · 0% chance of precipitation

9°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

Tue 3 Nov · 02:00Moon 18°Cloud 42%Score 57 (Fair)Night
0°30°60°90°BEST WINDOWNOW · 08:5109:0012:0015:0018:0021:0000:0003:0006:0009:0009:00 · Moon 44° · Cloud 82% · Score 3810:00 · Moon 36° · Cloud 100% · Score 2411:00 · Moon 27° · Cloud 96% · Score 1912:00 · Moon 17° · Cloud 77% · Score 2013:00 · Moon 8° · Cloud 79% · Score 1214:00 · Moon 0° · Cloud 85% · Score 515:00 · Moon -8° · Cloud 90% · Score 016:00 · Moon -15° · Cloud 74% · Score 017:00 · Moon -20° · Cloud 72% · Score 018:00 · Moon -23° · Cloud 80% · Score 019:00 · Moon -24° · Cloud 84% · Score 020:00 · Moon -23° · Cloud 34% · Score 021:00 · Moon -20° · Cloud 34% · Score 022:00 · Moon -14° · Cloud 0% · Score 023:00 · Moon -7° · Cloud 30% · Score 000:00 · Moon 1° · Cloud 30% · Score 5201:00 · Moon 9° · Cloud 91% · Score 2802:00 · Moon 18° · Cloud 42% · Score 5703:00 · Moon 26° · Cloud 0% · Score 8204:00 · Moon 35° · Cloud 84% · Score 5005:00 · Moon 42° · Cloud 90% · Score 5306:00 · Moon 47° · Cloud 95% · Score 3707:00 · Moon 49° · Cloud 5% · Score 5508:00 · Moon 48° · Cloud 51% · Score 5209:00 · Moon 44° · Cloud 98% · Score 30
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 2 Nov 09:0044 degrees82%0%38 out of 100Daylight
Mon 2 Nov 10:0036 degrees100%1%24 out of 100Daylight
Mon 2 Nov 11:0027 degrees96%3%19 out of 100Daylight
Mon 2 Nov 12:0017 degrees77%6%20 out of 100Daylight
Mon 2 Nov 13:008 degrees79%9%12 out of 100Daylight
Mon 2 Nov 14:000 degrees85%11%5 out of 100Daylight
Mon 2 Nov 15:00-8 degrees90%12%0 out of 100Daylight
Mon 2 Nov 16:00-15 degrees74%9%0 out of 100Daylight
Mon 2 Nov 17:00-20 degrees72%4%0 out of 100Twilight
Mon 2 Nov 18:00-23 degrees80%0%0 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 19:00-24 degrees84%0%0 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 20:00-23 degrees34%0%0 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 21:00-20 degrees34%0%0 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 22:00-14 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Night
Mon 2 Nov 23:00-7 degrees30%0%0 out of 100Night
Tue 3 Nov 00:001 degrees30%0%52 out of 100Night
Tue 3 Nov 01:009 degrees91%0%28 out of 100Night
Tue 3 Nov 02:0018 degrees42%0%57 out of 100Night
Tue 3 Nov 03:0026 degrees0%0%82 out of 100Night
Tue 3 Nov 04:0035 degrees84%0%50 out of 100Night
Tue 3 Nov 05:0042 degrees90%0%53 out of 100Night
Tue 3 Nov 06:0047 degrees95%0%37 out of 100Night
Tue 3 Nov 07:0049 degrees5%1%55 out of 100Daylight
Tue 3 Nov 08:0048 degrees51%1%52 out of 100Daylight
Tue 3 Nov 09:0044 degrees98%2%30 out of 100Daylight

Why this recommendation

  • Last Quarter at 44% illumination. The terminator gives the strongest crater shadows for the next few nights.
  • The Moon climbs to about 49° around 07:00.
  • Next moonrise: Mon 2 Nov at 23:53.
  • Forecast cloud cover averages 54% 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.

Two ways to go deeper

Next lunar event

Calculated phase · local to London

All events

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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
Apollo 17 landing siteLANDING-SITE · NASA / LRO SURFACE

Apollo 17 landing site

Landing site

20.2°N · 30.8°E

The Taurus–Littrow valley, the last crewed lunar landing, in December 1972. The site lies near the eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis.

Best phase

First quarter, near the terminator

Explore the Moon NASA Apollo mission documentation

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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