Today's lunar phase in Essen, Germany, the moon is in 🌖 the Waning Gibbous phase, with 74.87% illumination, with an age of 19.7 days. The current distance between Essen, Germany and the moon is 388,893.17km.
It's common to give the moon four phases names (Moon Cycle), it's like they divide the moon phases to forth different times, First one is the new moon, second one is the first quarter, third one full moon, fourth one and the last it's the last quarter, In the below we will list for you the current moon cycles with the four times that we talked about
| Phase | Start Date | Moonrise | Moonrset | Illumination | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🌑 New Moon | Sunday, December 21, 2025 | 10:15 | 17:16 | 0.71% | 0.79 |
| 🌓 First Quarter | Saturday, December 27, 2025 | 12:00 | 00:00 | 41.06% | 6.54 |
| 🌕 Full Moon | Friday, January 2, 2026 | 14:57 | 08:16 | 96.85% | 13.09 |
| 🌗 Last Quarter | Friday, January 9, 2026 | 00:00 | 11:11 | 66.58% | 20.56 |
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1Waxing Gibbous🌔 91.27%Age 11.95 | 2Full Moon🌕 96.85%Age 13.09 | 3Full Moon🌕 99.68%Age 14.23 | ||||
4Full Moon🌕 99.59%Age 15.37 | 5Full Moon🌕 96.73%Age 16.47 | 6Waning Gibbous🌖 91.47%Age 17.55 | 7Waning Gibbous🌖 84.33%Age 18.59 | 8Waning Gibbous🌖 75.86%Age 19.59 | 9Last Quarter🌗 66.58%Age 20.56 | 10Last Quarter🌗 56.91%Age 21.5 |
11Last Quarter🌗 47.22%Age 22.41 | 12Last Quarter🌗 37.79%Age 23.31 | 13Waning Crescent🌘 28.9%Age 24.2 | 14Waning Crescent🌘 20.78%Age 25.08 | 15Waning Crescent🌘 13.67%Age 25.97 | 16Waning Crescent🌘 7.82%Age 26.87 | 17New Moon🌑 3.45%Age 27.77 |
18New Moon🌑 0.78%Age 28.7 | 19New Moon🌑 0.01%Age 0.1 | 20New Moon🌑 1.26%Age 1.06 | 21Waxing Crescent🌒 4.6%Age 2.03 | 22Waxing Crescent🌒 9.98%Age 3.02 | 23Waxing Crescent🌒 17.27%Age 4.03 | 24Waxing Crescent🌒 26.19%Age 5.05 |
25First Quarter🌓 36.4%Age 6.09 | 26First Quarter🌓 47.43%Age 7.14 | 27First Quarter🌓 58.75%Age 8.21 | 28Waxing Gibbous🌔 69.77%Age 9.29 | 29Waxing Gibbous🌔 79.86%Age 10.39 | 30Waxing Gibbous🌔 88.4%Age 11.5 | 31Waxing Gibbous🌔 94.82%Age 12.61 |
