Today's lunar phase in Essen, Germany, the moon is in 🌒 the Waxing Crescent phase, with 6.45% illumination, with an age of 2.41 days. The current distance between Essen, Germany and the moon is 375,141.80km.
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 | Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | 08:04 | 19:17 | 0.23% | 0.45 |
| 🌓 First Quarter | Monday, February 23, 2026 | 09:17 | 00:54 | 32.57% | 5.71 |
| 🌕 Full Moon | Monday, March 2, 2026 | 17:10 | 06:59 | 97.25% | 13.2 |
| 🌗 Last Quarter | Tuesday, March 10, 2026 | 02:02 | 09:03 | 63.54% | 20.86 |
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1Full Moon🌕 98.75%Age 13.71 | 2Full Moon🌕 100%Age 14.8 | 3Full Moon🌕 98.64%Age 15.86 | 4Waning Gibbous🌖 94.94%Age 16.9 | 5Waning Gibbous🌖 89.28%Age 17.9 | 6Waning Gibbous🌖 82.1%Age 18.87 | 7Waning Gibbous🌖 73.83%Age 19.81 |
8Last Quarter🌗 64.84%Age 20.73 | 9Last Quarter🌗 55.48%Age 21.63 | 10Last Quarter🌗 46.03%Age 22.52 | 11Last Quarter🌗 36.76%Age 23.41 | 12Waning Crescent🌘 27.93%Age 24.3 | 13Waning Crescent🌘 19.81%Age 25.2 | 14Waning Crescent🌘 12.68%Age 26.11 |
15Waning Crescent🌘 6.85%Age 27.04 | 16New Moon🌑 2.64%Age 28 | 17New Moon🌑 0.35%Age 28.98 | 18New Moon🌑 0.23%Age 0.45 | 19New Moon🌑 2.44%Age 1.47 | 20Waxing Crescent🌒 7%Age 2.52 | 21Waxing Crescent🌒 13.76%Age 3.57 |
22Waxing Crescent🌒 22.43%Age 4.64 | 23First Quarter🌓 32.57%Age 5.71 | 24First Quarter🌓 43.64%Age 6.78 | 25First Quarter🌓 55.05%Age 7.86 | 26First Quarter🌓 66.21%Age 8.93 | 27Waxing Gibbous🌔 76.51%Age 10.01 | 28Waxing Gibbous🌔 85.41%Age 11.08 |
