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Is tonight a Moon night?

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

Moscow· RussiaWednesday, 21 October 2026 · 23:55 · Moscow

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: 00:00 · Fair (51/100)

Phase

Waxing Gibbous

Illumination

79%

Next moonrise

Tomorrow 15:54

Next moonset

Tomorrow 02:02

View tonight's outlookHow the score works

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

Current moon
Phase-correct

Waxing Gibbous · 79% lit

Altitude 14° · Azimuth 227° · 390,182 km

Northern-hemisphere orientation · surface detail schematic

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 Moscow.

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: 00:00 · 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

Partly cloudy

49%

Cloud cover · 0% chance of precipitation

5°C nowValid 00:00 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 22 Oct · 00:00Moon 13°Cloud 49%Score 51 (Fair)Night
0°30°60°90°NOW · 23:5500:0003:0006:0009:0012:0015:0018:0021:0000:0000:00 · Moon 13° · Cloud 49% · Score 5101:00 · Moon 7° · Cloud 51% · Score 4502:00 · Moon 0° · Cloud 75% · Score 3103:00 · Moon -8° · Cloud 99% · Score 004:00 · Moon -16° · Cloud 84% · Score 005:00 · Moon -24° · Cloud 58% · Score 006:00 · Moon -31° · Cloud 68% · Score 007:00 · Moon -36° · Cloud 58% · Score 008:00 · Moon -40° · Cloud 70% · Score 009:00 · Moon -42° · Cloud 69% · Score 010:00 · Moon -41° · Cloud 70% · Score 011:00 · Moon -37° · Cloud 67% · Score 012:00 · Moon -31° · Cloud 70% · Score 013:00 · Moon -24° · Cloud 89% · Score 014:00 · Moon -16° · Cloud 99% · Score 015:00 · Moon -8° · Cloud 90% · Score 016:00 · Moon 0° · Cloud 100% · Score 017:00 · Moon 8° · Cloud 100% · Score 418:00 · Moon 15° · Cloud 100% · Score 1119:00 · Moon 22° · Cloud 100% · Score 3020:00 · Moon 26° · Cloud 100% · Score 3921:00 · Moon 29° · Cloud 93% · Score 4422:00 · Moon 29° · Cloud 80% · Score 5023:00 · Moon 27° · Cloud 85% · Score 4600:00 · Moon 23° · Cloud 100% · Score 36
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 22 Oct 00:0013 degrees49%0%51 out of 100Night
Thu 22 Oct 01:007 degrees51%0%45 out of 100Night
Thu 22 Oct 02:000 degrees75%0%31 out of 100Night
Thu 22 Oct 03:00-8 degrees99%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 22 Oct 04:00-16 degrees84%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 22 Oct 05:00-24 degrees58%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 22 Oct 06:00-31 degrees68%0%0 out of 100Night
Thu 22 Oct 07:00-36 degrees58%0%0 out of 100Twilight
Thu 22 Oct 08:00-40 degrees70%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 09:00-42 degrees69%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 10:00-41 degrees70%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 11:00-37 degrees67%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 12:00-31 degrees70%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 13:00-24 degrees89%0%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 14:00-16 degrees99%1%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 15:00-8 degrees90%2%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 16:000 degrees100%6%0 out of 100Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 17:008 degrees100%11%4 out of 100Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 18:0015 degrees100%14%11 out of 100Night
Thu 22 Oct 19:0022 degrees100%11%30 out of 100Night
Thu 22 Oct 20:0026 degrees100%6%39 out of 100Night
Thu 22 Oct 21:0029 degrees93%2%44 out of 100Night
Thu 22 Oct 22:0029 degrees80%0%50 out of 100Night
Thu 22 Oct 23:0027 degrees85%0%46 out of 100Night
Fri 23 Oct 00:0023 degrees100%0%36 out of 100Night

Why this recommendation

  • Waxing Gibbous at 79% illumination. The terminator gives the strongest crater shadows for the next few nights.
  • The Moon climbs to about 29° around 22:00.
  • Next moonrise: Thu 22 Oct at 15:54.
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.
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Local context

Moonwatching from Moscow

At 55.8° N, summer nights are short and the Moon can stay low. The disc is shown in northern-hemisphere orientation and surface detail is schematic.

All times on this page use the IANA time zone Europe/Moscow, including daylight-saving changes. The weather forecast is for coordinates 55.76°, 37.62°. It can differ across a large metropolitan area.

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Next lunar event

Calculated phase · local to Moscow

All events

Mon

26

Oct

Full Moon

07:12 local · Mon 26 Oct

Above horizonMoon at 4° altitude

Full Moon occurs at 07:12 local time in Moscow on 26 October. The Moon is opposite the Sun and fully illuminated. It is easy to see all night, but surface contrast is lowest because sunlight is nearly head-on.

Event details Above the horizon (4°) at the exact moment

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