Today's lunar phase in Essen, Germany, the moon is in 🌓 the First Quarter phase, with 42.31% illumination, with an age of 6.66 days. The current distance between Essen, Germany and the moon is 374,235.62km.
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🌔 78.01%Age 10.18 | 2Waxing Gibbous🌔 86.91%Age 11.29 | 3Waxing Gibbous🌔 93.93%Age 12.42 | 4Full Moon🌕 98.43%Age 13.58 | 5Full Moon🌕 100%Age 14.75 | 6Full Moon🌕 98.51%Age 15.91 | |
7Waning Gibbous🌖 94.19%Age 17.05 | 8Waning Gibbous🌖 87.5%Age 18.16 | 9Waning Gibbous🌖 79.06%Age 19.23 | 10Waning Gibbous🌖 69.52%Age 20.26 | 11Last Quarter🌗 59.44%Age 21.26 | 12Last Quarter🌗 49.3%Age 22.21 | 13Last Quarter🌗 39.46%Age 23.15 |
14Waning Crescent🌘 30.23%Age 24.06 | 15Waning Crescent🌘 21.86%Age 24.96 | 16Waning Crescent🌘 14.57%Age 25.85 | 17Waning Crescent🌘 8.58%Age 26.74 | 18Waning Crescent🌘 4.05%Age 27.62 | 19New Moon🌑 1.16%Age 28.52 | 20New Moon🌑 0.01%Age 29.42 |
21New Moon🌑 0.71%Age 0.79 | 22New Moon🌑 3.28%Age 1.71 | 23Waxing Crescent🌒 7.7%Age 2.64 | 24Waxing Crescent🌒 13.88%Age 3.59 | 25Waxing Crescent🌒 21.67%Age 4.55 | 26Waxing Crescent🌒 30.84%Age 5.53 | 27First Quarter🌓 41.06%Age 6.54 |
28First Quarter🌓 51.95%Age 7.57 | 29First Quarter🌓 63.03%Age 8.62 | 30Waxing Gibbous🌔 73.71%Age 9.7 | 31Waxing Gibbous🌔 83.35%Age 10.81 |
