Skip to content
MoonScan
Open navigation menu
MoonScan home

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Europe/Amsterdam

Live lunar conditions

Is tonight a Moon night?

Only a brief, low-quality opening. No two-hour window clears 50/100. Best single hour: 18:00 · Fair (51/100).

Amsterdam· NetherlandsWednesday, 11 November 2026 · 18:50 · Amsterdam

Tonight's verdict

Only a brief, low-quality opening

Weather-adjusted
51/100
Viewing score 51 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Fair

No two-hour window clears 50/100. Best single hour: 18:00 · Fair (51/100)

Phase

Waxing Crescent

Illumination

6%

Next moonrise

Tomorrow 11:44

Next moonset

Tomorrow 18:13

View tonight's outlookHow the score works

Open-Meteo hourly forecast for 19:00 local · cached up to 20 min

Current moon
Phase-correct

Waxing Crescent · 6% lit

Altitude -10° · Azimuth 237° · 403,729 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 Amsterdam.

Read the scoring method

Viewing score

Cloud-weighted, per hour

Weather
51/100
Viewing score 51 out of 100, weather-adjusted, Night viewing.

Fair

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 two-hour window clears 50/100. Best single hour: 18:00 · Fair (51/100)

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

Overcast

89%

Cloud cover · 0% chance of precipitation

5°C nowValid 19:00 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

Wed 11 Nov · 19:00Moon -11°Cloud 89%Score 0 (Poor)Night
0°30°60°90°NOW · 18:5019:0022:0001:0004:0007:0010:0013:0016:0019:0019:00 · Moon -11° · Cloud 89% · Score 020:00 · Moon -19° · Cloud 61% · Score 021:00 · Moon -27° · Cloud 36% · Score 022:00 · Moon -36° · Cloud 13% · Score 023:00 · Moon -45° · Cloud 34% · Score 000:00 · Moon -53° · Cloud 4% · Score 001:00 · Moon -60° · Cloud 0% · Score 002:00 · Moon -65° · Cloud 0% · Score 003:00 · Moon -65° · Cloud 0% · Score 004:00 · Moon -61° · Cloud 100% · Score 005:00 · Moon -54° · Cloud 77% · Score 006:00 · Moon -46° · Cloud 100% · Score 007:00 · Moon -37° · Cloud 89% · Score 008:00 · Moon -29° · Cloud 0% · Score 009:00 · Moon -20° · Cloud 100% · Score 010:00 · Moon -12° · Cloud 23% · Score 011:00 · Moon -5° · Cloud 100% · Score 012:00 · Moon 1° · Cloud 100% · Score 013:00 · Moon 5° · Cloud 2% · Score 4514:00 · Moon 8° · Cloud 0% · Score 4815:00 · Moon 9° · Cloud 0% · Score 4916:00 · Moon 8° · Cloud 0% · Score 4917:00 · Moon 5° · Cloud 0% · Score 4718:00 · Moon 1° · Cloud 0% · Score 5119:00 · Moon -5° · Cloud 0% · 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
Wed 11 Nov 19:00-11 degrees89%0%0 out of 100Night
Wed 11 Nov 20:00-19 degrees61%0%0 out of 100Night
Wed 11 Nov 21:00-27 degrees36%0%0 out of 100Night
Wed 11 Nov 22:00-36 degrees13%0%0 out of 100Night
Wed 11 Nov 23:00-45 degrees34%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 12 Nov 00:00-53 degrees4%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 12 Nov 01:00-60 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 12 Nov 02:00-65 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 12 Nov 03:00-65 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 12 Nov 04:00-61 degrees100%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 12 Nov 05:00-54 degrees77%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 12 Nov 06:00-46 degrees100%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 12 Nov 07:00-37 degrees89%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 12 Nov 08:00-29 degrees0%1%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 12 Nov 09:00-20 degrees100%1%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 12 Nov 10:00-12 degrees23%2%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 12 Nov 11:00-5 degrees100%2%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 12 Nov 12:001 degrees100%2%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 12 Nov 13:005 degrees2%2%45 out of 100Daylight
Thu 12 Nov 14:008 degrees0%1%48 out of 100Daylight
Thu 12 Nov 15:009 degrees0%1%49 out of 100Daylight
Thu 12 Nov 16:008 degrees0%0%49 out of 100Daylight
Thu 12 Nov 17:005 degrees0%0%47 out of 100Twilight
Thu 12 Nov 18:001 degrees0%0%51 out of 100Night
Thu 12 Nov 19:00-5 degrees0%0%0 out of 100Night

Why this recommendation

  • Waxing Crescent at 6% illumination. Only a slim crescent is lit; look soon after sunset or before sunrise, close to the horizon.
  • The Moon climbs to about 9° around 15:00.
  • Next moonrise: Thu 12 Nov at 11:44.
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 →

Local context

Moonwatching from Amsterdam

At 52.4° N, summer nights are short and the Moon can stay low. The disc is shown in northern-hemisphere orientation with a NASA LRO surface.

All times on this page use the IANA time zone Europe/Amsterdam, including daylight-saving changes. The weather forecast is for coordinates 52.37°, 4.90°. It can differ across a large metropolitan area.

Server-rendered local dataCanonical city page

Want a different place? Use the location selector in the header, or view the live default page.

Next lunar event

Calculated phase · local to Amsterdam

All events

Tue

17

Nov

First Quarter Moon

12:48 local · Tue 17 Nov

Below horizonMoon at -10° altitude

First Quarter Moon occurs at 12:48 local time in Amsterdam 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

Other city pages

LondonNew YorkLos AngelesChicagoHonoluluTorontoVancouverMexico City

These pages are curated, not generated for every place name. Each has the same calculated live data, a canonical URL, and a manual location selector for anywhere else. Method and sources.