Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 83% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 21 June 2026 at 21:55.
Strawberry Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2026 after 4 days on 29 June 2026 at 23:57.
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1787"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1888".
Lunation 327 / 1280
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 327 of Meeus index or 1280 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 hour and 4 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2026. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠2.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠2.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18°.
Moon before apogee
10 days since point of perigee on 14 June 2026 at 23:18 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 June 2026 at 07:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 401 205 km(249 297 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 267 km(252 443 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 19 June 2026 at 17:57 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 4 July 2026 at 07:51 in ♓ Pisces.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 15 June 2026 at 05:29 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.989° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.988° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 June 2026 at 22:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 4 days on 29 June 2026 at 23:57 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.