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Lunar phase today Cape Town

Lunar Day 52

Moon phase today August 20, 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 9.25% illumination, with an age of 26.63 days. The current distance between Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA and the moon is 375,034.31km.

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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, August 20, 2025
12:00:54 PM
Lunar Day 52
Waning Crescent
9.25%
Cape Town
SOUTH AFRICA
  • Location:
    SOUTH AFRICA, Cape Town
  • Moon phase:
    🌘 Waning Crescent
  • Lunar day (Moon Age):
    26.63
  • Illumination:
    9.25%
  • MoonRise/MoonSet:
    05:35/15:23
  • Altitude:
    25.47°
  • Period:
    🕑 9 Hours and 48 Minutes
  • Angular diameter:
    30.43°
  • Distance to Cape Town:
    375,034.31km
  • Next full Moon:
    September 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
  • Next full Moon countdown:
    18 Days, 6 Hours and 23 Minutes

Upcoming moon phases

August 21, 2025
Lunar Day 27
Waning Crescent
Illumination: 6.29%
Rise
06:19
Set
16:31
August 22, 2025
Lunar Day 28
New Moon
Illumination: 2.06%
Rise
06:56
Set
17:39
August 23, 2025
Lunar Day 29
New Moon
Illumination: 0.13%
Rise
07:27
Set
18:42
August 24, 2025
Lunar Day 0
New Moon
Illumination: 0.48%
Rise
07:54
Set
19:43
August 25, 2025
Lunar Day 1
New Moon
Illumination: 2.93%
Rise
08:18
Set
20:41
August 26, 2025
Lunar Day 2
Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 7.26%
Rise
08:42
Set
21:38
August 27, 2025
Lunar Day 3
Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 13.17%
Rise
09:07
Set
22:35

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, July 25, 202508:2318:480.02%0.12
🌓 First QuarterThursday, July 31, 202511:0600:0034.99%5.95
🌕 Full MoonFriday, August 8, 202517:2007:0697.65%13.32
🌗 Last QuarterFriday, August 15, 202500:0610:4664.7%20.75

Moon Phase Calendar for August, 2025

SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday
     
1First Quarter🌓 44.32%Age 6.85
2First Quarter🌓 53.79%Age 7.74
3First Quarter🌓 63.13%Age 8.63
4Waxing Gibbous🌔 72.07%Age 9.53
5Waxing Gibbous🌔 80.32%Age 10.44
6Waxing Gibbous🌔 87.56%Age 11.38
7Waxing Gibbous🌔 93.46%Age 12.33
8Full Moon🌕 97.65%Age 13.32
9Full Moon🌕 99.78%Age 14.33
10Full Moon🌕 99.6%Age 15.36
11Full Moon🌕 96.93%Age 16.42
12Waning Gibbous🌖 91.82%Age 17.49
13Waning Gibbous🌖 84.46%Age 18.57
14Waning Gibbous🌖 75.25%Age 19.66
15Last Quarter🌗 64.7%Age 20.75
16Last Quarter🌗 53.41%Age 21.83
17Last Quarter🌗 41.98%Age 22.9
18Last Quarter🌗 31.03%Age 23.98
19Waning Crescent🌘 21.11%Age 25.04
20Waning Crescent🌘 12.73%Age 26.1
21Waning Crescent🌘 6.29%Age 27.15
22New Moon🌑 2.06%Age 28.18
23New Moon🌑 0.13%Age 29.19
24New Moon🌑 0.48%Age 0.65
25New Moon🌑 2.93%Age 1.62
26Waxing Crescent🌒 7.26%Age 2.56
27Waxing Crescent🌒 13.17%Age 3.49
28Waxing Crescent🌒 20.36%Age 4.4
29Waxing Crescent🌒 28.54%Age 5.3
30First Quarter🌓 37.43%Age 6.19
31First Quarter🌓 46.78%Age 7.08