Moon tonight
New Moon
0% litThe sunny side of the moon is facing mostly away from us, so it looks dark or like a super-thin line of light.
This is a crescent moon: the thin bright curve is sunlight; the large dark area is the moon’s night side.
- Illumination
- 0%
- Lunar day
- 29.4 of 30
- Next phase
- New Moon 14700s
- Wed 18 Mar, 16:05 UTC
3-day trend
Brightening
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
A quiet moment in the sky: good for resting, dreaming up ideas, and starting small when you feel ready.
Everyone on Earth sees the same phase at the same moment — only your local clock time differs. The drawing matches how the moon looks in the northern sky; south of the equator, left and right in the picture swap.