Mumbai, India · Asia/Kolkata

Live lunar conditions

Is tonight a Moon night?

A workable Moon night. The best window is 17:30–01:30; cloud cover is likely to be the limiting factor.

Mumbai· IndiaThursday, 22 October 2026 · 02:25 · Kolkata

Tonight's verdict

A workable Moon night

Weather-adjusted

57/100

Fair

Best window 17:30–01:30 · 8 hrs · Fair (57/100)

Look ESE · 50° above the horizon · 8 hrs

Phase

Waxing Gibbous

Illumination

79%

Next moonrise

Today 15:33

Next moonset

Today 02:48

View tonight's outlookHow the score works

Open-Meteo hourly forecast for 02:30 local · cached up to 20 min

Current moon

Phase-correct

Waxing Gibbous · 79% lit

Altitude 5° · Azimuth 258° · 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 Mumbai.

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Best viewing window

17:30–01:30

8 hrs · look ESE · 50° altitude · 75% mean cloud

Thu 22 Oct · local time in Mumbai

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Viewing score

Cloud-weighted, per hour

Weather

57/100

Fair

Cloud likely to interfere

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

17:30–01:30

8 hrs · look ESE · 50° altitude

Starts Thu 22 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

Partly cloudy

45%

Cloud cover · 0% chance of precipitation

30°C nowValid 02:30 local

Moon altitude & cloud cover

Next 24 hours · local time · cloud bars rise from the horizon

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Moon altitude Cloud cover Daylight / twilight Now

Weather: Open-Meteo

Thu 22 Oct · 17:30Moon 26°Cloud 30%Score 50 (Fair)Daylight

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 time	Moon altitude	Cloud cover	Precipitation chance	Score	Light
Thu 22 Oct 02:30	4 degrees	45%	0%	45 out of 100	Night
Thu 22 Oct 03:30	-10 degrees	91%	0%	0 out of 100	Night
Thu 22 Oct 04:30	-23 degrees	70%	0%	0 out of 100	Night
Thu 22 Oct 05:30	-37 degrees	10%	0%	0 out of 100	Night
Thu 22 Oct 06:30	-50 degrees	16%	0%	0 out of 100	Twilight
Thu 22 Oct 07:30	-64 degrees	85%	0%	0 out of 100	Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 08:30	-75 degrees	26%	0%	0 out of 100	Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 09:30	-78 degrees	3%	0%	0 out of 100	Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 10:30	-69 degrees	10%	0%	0 out of 100	Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 11:30	-56 degrees	52%	0%	0 out of 100	Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 12:30	-42 degrees	87%	0%	0 out of 100	Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 13:30	-29 degrees	20%	0%	0 out of 100	Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 14:30	-15 degrees	40%	0%	0 out of 100	Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 15:30	-1 degrees	63%	0%	0 out of 100	Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 16:30	12 degrees	50%	0%	30 out of 100	Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 17:30	26 degrees	30%	0%	50 out of 100	Daylight
Thu 22 Oct 18:30	39 degrees	52%	0%	50 out of 100	Twilight
Thu 22 Oct 19:30	51 degrees	34%	0%	84 out of 100	Night
Thu 22 Oct 20:30	61 degrees	88%	0%	59 out of 100	Night
Thu 22 Oct 21:30	66 degrees	100%	0%	54 out of 100	Night
Thu 22 Oct 22:30	63 degrees	100%	0%	54 out of 100	Night
Thu 22 Oct 23:30	53 degrees	100%	0%	54 out of 100	Night
Fri 23 Oct 00:30	42 degrees	97%	0%	53 out of 100	Night
Fri 23 Oct 01:30	29 degrees	87%	0%	47 out of 100	Night
Fri 23 Oct 02:30	15 degrees	7%	0%	72 out of 100	Night

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 66° around 21:30.
Next moonrise: Thu 22 Oct at 15:33.
Forecast cloud cover averages 75% 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.

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Local context

Moonwatching from Mumbai

At 19.1° N, the Moon follows a relatively high arc. The disc is shown in northern-hemisphere orientation and surface detail is schematic.

All times on this page use the IANA time zone Asia/Kolkata, including daylight-saving changes. The weather forecast is for coordinates 19.08°, 72.88°. It can differ across a large metropolitan area.

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Next lunar event

Calculated phase · local to Mumbai

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Full Moon

09:42 local · Mon 26 Oct

Below horizonMoon at -38° altitude

Full Moon occurs at 09:42 local time in Mumbai 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 Below the horizon at the exact moment — look near moonrise or moonset