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Lunar phase today Cape Town

Lunar Day 52

Moon phase today December 17, 2025

What is moon today in Cape Town?

Today's lunar phase in Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA, the moon is in 🌘 the Waning Crescent phase, with 7.34% illumination, with an age of 26.95 days. The current distance between Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA and the moon is 405,420.56km.

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Moon phase today

Note: all moon data below it's analytic based on this location coordinates latitude -33.9248685 and longitude 18.4240553 also base on Time zone Africa/Maseru because of that and for higher accuracy you will find it different from place to place.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
06:50:06 AM
Lunar Day 52
Waning Crescent
7.34%
Cape Town
SOUTH AFRICA
  • Location:
    SOUTH AFRICA, Cape Town
  • Moon phase:
    🌘 Waning Crescent
  • Lunar day (Moon Age):
    26.95
  • Illumination:
    7.34%
  • MoonRise/MoonSet:
    03:12/17:57
  • Altitude:
    38.52°
  • Period:
    🕑 14 Hours and 45 Minutes
  • Angular diameter:
    28.15°
  • Distance to Cape Town:
    405,420.56km
  • Next full Moon:
    January 2, 2026 at 7:35 PM
  • Next full Moon countdown:
    16 Days, 12 Hours and 44 Minutes

Upcoming moon phases

December 18, 2025
Lunar Day 27
Waning Crescent
Illumination: 4.21%
Rise
03:49
Set
18:55
December 19, 2025
Lunar Day 28
New Moon
Illumination: 1.24%
Rise
04:33
Set
19:51
December 20, 2025
Lunar Day 29
New Moon
Illumination: 0.03%
Rise
05:23
Set
20:41
December 21, 2025
Lunar Day 0
New Moon
Illumination: 0.64%
Rise
06:19
Set
21:27
December 22, 2025
Lunar Day 1
New Moon
Illumination: 3.14%
Rise
07:20
Set
22:06
December 23, 2025
Lunar Day 2
Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 7.48%
Rise
08:21
Set
22:39
December 24, 2025
Lunar Day 3
Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 13.59%
Rise
09:24
Set
23:10

Current moon cycle

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
PhaseStart DateMoonriseMoonrsetIlluminationAge
🌑 New MoonFriday, November 21, 202505:5121:020.36%0.57
🌓 First QuarterThursday, November 27, 202511:3000:3736.01%6.05
🌕 Full MoonThursday, December 4, 202519:3904:2698.3%13.54
🌗 Last QuarterThursday, December 11, 202500:3112:1059.87%21.21

Moon Phase Calendar for December, 2025

SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday
 
1Waxing Gibbous🌔 77.61%Age 10.13
2Waxing Gibbous🌔 86.57%Age 11.24
3Waxing Gibbous🌔 93.68%Age 12.38
4Full Moon🌕 98.3%Age 13.54
5Full Moon🌕 100%Age 14.7
6Full Moon🌕 98.64%Age 15.87
7Waning Gibbous🌖 94.42%Age 17.01
8Waning Gibbous🌖 87.81%Age 18.12
9Waning Gibbous🌖 79.44%Age 19.19
10Waning Gibbous🌖 69.93%Age 20.22
11Last Quarter🌗 59.87%Age 21.21
12Last Quarter🌗 49.71%Age 22.17
13Last Quarter🌗 39.86%Age 23.11
14Waning Crescent🌘 30.59%Age 24.02
15Waning Crescent🌘 22.19%Age 24.92
16Waning Crescent🌘 14.85%Age 25.81
17Waning Crescent🌘 8.8%Age 26.7
18Waning Crescent🌘 4.21%Age 27.59
19New Moon🌑 1.24%Age 28.48
20New Moon🌑 0.03%Age 29.38
21New Moon🌑 0.64%Age 0.76
22New Moon🌑 3.14%Age 1.67
23Waxing Crescent🌒 7.48%Age 2.6
24Waxing Crescent🌒 13.59%Age 3.55
25Waxing Crescent🌒 21.32%Age 4.51
26Waxing Crescent🌒 30.43%Age 5.49
27First Quarter🌓 40.62%Age 6.5
28First Quarter🌓 51.49%Age 7.52
29First Quarter🌓 62.57%Age 8.58
30Waxing Gibbous🌔 73.28%Age 9.66
31Waxing Gibbous🌔 82.98%Age 10.77