Moon Phase Today - Lunar Calendar

Moon phase today

Waning Gibbous in Libra

Waning Gibbous today: 5 March 2026, Thursday. The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Thursday26FebruaryWaxing Gibbous♋ CancerFriday27FebruaryWaxing Gibbous♋ CancerSaturday28FebruaryWaxing Gibbous♌ LeoSunday1MarchWaxing Gibbous♌ LeoMonday2MarchWaxing Gibbous♌ LeoTuesday311:38Full Moon♍ VirgoWednesday4MarchWaning Gibbous♍ VirgoThursdayTodayMarchWaning Gibbous♎ LibraFriday6MarchWaning Gibbous♎ LibraSaturday7MarchWaning Gibbous♏ ScorpioSunday8MarchWaning Gibbous♏ ScorpioMonday9MarchWaning Gibbous♏ ScorpioTuesday10MarchWaning Gibbous♐ SagittariusWednesday1109:39Last Quarter♐ SagittariusThursday12MarchWaning Crescent♑ Capricorn

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

11March09:39Last Quarter♐ Sagittarius19March01:23New Moon♓ Pisces25March19:18First Quarter♊ Gemini2April02:12Full Moon♎ Libra

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Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♎ Libra

Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 3 March 2026 at 11:38.

Worm Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2026 after 27 days on 2 April 2026 at 02:12.

Neap tide

There is low ocean tide today. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1819"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1819" and ∠1934".

Lunation 323 / 1276

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 323 of Meeus index or 1276 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.56 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 22 minutes and it is 2 hours and 54 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for 03/5/2026

True anomaly ∠276.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠276.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠307.9°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 24 February 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 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 March 2026 at 13:43 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Last perigee | Next apogee

Distance to Moon 394 154 km

The Moon is 394 154 km (244 916 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 385 km (251 273 mi).

Moon after descending node

2 days after descending node on 3 March 2026 at 04:35 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 March 2026 at 15:22 in ♓ Pisces.

Last node | Next node

Moon before southern standstill

7 days since the last northern standstill on 25 February 2026 at 23:23 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.428° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.416° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 March 2026 at 21:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Last standstill | Next standstill

Draconic month

15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

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Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 19 March 2026 at 01:23 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Last syzygy | Next syzygy

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Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov