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Sun, Moon & Sky

Tonight’s Moon, planets and sunset for your town, and what to look for next.

Work it out here

Scientific keys, or a quick sum that turns hours into degrees of the Earth’s turn and days into Moon cycles.

On this page

DeskTonight’s skySunset, the Moon, the planets up tonight and what is coming, for your town.

Sky clocks and instruments

Clock faceCalculation Time ClockThe site clockface explained as a working sky-and-time instrument with the Southern Cross, calendar motion and visible planets.Solar system modelGrand OrreryThe planets in 3D round the Sun for any date, and where each one is tonight.Teaching clockSouthern Cross Time and Date CalculatorKnow the date and the Hand of the Cross gives the hour; know the hour and it gives the date.Solar system in motionSpiral Grand OrreryThe planets coiling round the Sun as it carries them 230 km a second through the Milky Way, and how far it has carried you since you were born.World clocksThe Turning Earth: 24 Crux ClocksA Crux clock on each of the 24 time-zone meridians, showing how local midnight-zero faces tell the same turning Earth story from different longitudes.North and south clocksTwin Clocks of EarthThe Crux Perpetual and its Northern mirror side by side: the Southern Cross and the Big Dipper, read from opposite ends of the Earth, stepping through the same month together.Planet trackThe Wanderers’ LaneThe Sun, Moon and five naked-eye planets laid onto one ecliptic lane, with live conjunction, visibility and retrograde context.

Calculators

CalculatorEclipse CalculatorThe next eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and whether you can see them.CalculatorMoon Phase CalculatorToday’s Moon phase, how much is lit and the next full and new moons.CalculatorSeasons and Solstices CalculatorWhen the next solstice and equinox fall, and how long until then.CalculatorSouthern Cross ClockThe historical Southern Cross Clock preserved as its own readable sky-time tool.CalculatorSunrise and Sunset CalculatorSunrise, sunset, golden hour and twilight for any place and date.

Calendars

CalendarCosmic CalendarA scale-calendar view of cosmic history on one calendar year.

One of a kind on CalculationTime

The Grand OrreryWhere every planet is on any date from 1700 to 2200, and what is up tonight.The Spiral Grand OrreryThe planets coiling round the Sun as it carries them 230 km a second through the Milky Way.

Tonight’s sky

Pick your town and a date: sunset and sunrise, the Moon’s phase and rise, the planets that are up, and what comes next.

Your sky

Tonight, from where you stand

Choose your town and a date, and sunrise, sunset, the Moon and the planets for that night appear here.

Print room

The sky for November 2026, night by night

Sunrise, sunset, the Moon and every meeting for London UK, on one page for the fridge or the telescope case.

The sky over London UK: November 2026

Times in London UK local time. Moon % lit at an hour after sunset.

DaySunriseSunsetMoonMoonriseMoonsetIn the sky
Sun 16:53 am4:33 pm51%10:28 pm1:42 pmLast quarter 8:28 pm
Mon 26:55 am4:31 pm40%11:53 pm2:02 pmMoon meets Mars (1.0°); Moon meets Jupiter (0.5°)
Tue 36:57 am4:29 pm30%—2:18 pm
Wed 46:59 am4:28 pm21%1:14 am2:31 pm
Thu 57:00 am4:26 pm13%2:33 am2:43 pm
Fri 67:02 am4:24 pm7%3:50 am2:55 pm
Sat 77:04 am4:23 pm2%5:07 am3:09 pmMoon meets Venus (1.0°)
Sun 87:06 am4:21 pm0%6:23 am3:25 pm
Mon 97:08 am4:19 pm0%7:40 am3:46 pmNew moon 7:02 am
Tue 107:09 am4:18 pm2%8:54 am4:14 pm
Wed 117:11 am4:16 pm6%10:02 am4:51 pm
Thu 127:13 am4:15 pm11%10:59 am5:41 pm
Fri 137:15 am4:13 pm17%11:43 am6:41 pm
Sat 147:16 am4:12 pm25%12:16 pm7:50 pm
Sun 157:18 am4:11 pm33%12:40 pm9:02 pm
Mon 167:20 am4:09 pm43%12:59 pm10:15 pmMars meets Jupiter (1.2°)
Tue 177:21 am4:08 pm52%1:13 pm11:29 pmFirst quarter 11:48 am
Wed 187:23 am4:07 pm62%1:26 pm—
Thu 197:25 am4:06 pm72%1:38 pm12:43 am
Fri 207:26 am4:04 pm81%1:50 pm1:59 amMercury at its farthest from the Sun
Sat 217:28 am4:03 pm89%2:04 pm3:18 am
Sun 227:30 am4:02 pm95%2:21 pm4:43 am
Mon 237:31 am4:01 pm99%2:44 pm6:12 am
Tue 247:33 am4:00 pm100%3:17 pm7:43 amFull moon 2:54 pm
Wed 257:34 am3:59 pm98%4:07 pm9:09 am
Thu 267:36 am3:58 pm94%5:16 pm10:19 am
Fri 277:37 am3:57 pm86%6:40 pm11:09 am
Sat 287:39 am3:57 pm77%8:11 pm11:43 am
Sun 297:40 am3:56 pm67%9:39 pm12:07 pm
Mon 307:42 am3:55 pm56%11:03 pm12:24 pmMoon meets Jupiter (1.1°); Moon meets Mars (3.0°)

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