Moon tonight
New Moon
1% 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
- 0.7%
- Lunar day
- 0.8 of 30
- Next phase
- First quarter 571500s
- Sun 24 May, 02:45 UTC
3-day trend
Brightening
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
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.