Sun and twilight
- Sunset
- Civil twilight ends
- Nautical twilight ends
- Astronomical darkness
- –
- Sunrise
Tonight at a glance
The Moon
99%
Waning Gibbous
- Moonrise
- Moonset
- none
- Moon-free darkness
- none
Times between local noon today and noon tomorrow; (+1) means after midnight.
Dark-sky tip
A bright Moon tonight. Its light hides the Milky Way and fainter meteors. Use it instead: binoculars on the line between light and dark show craters in sharp relief.
Let the sky turn. The stars rise about four minutes earlier each night, so a constellation you see at 22:00 now will be in the same place at 20:00 in a month. If something is too low tonight, wait an hour or come back in a few weeks.
Tonight hour by hour
Day Civil twilight Nautical Astronomical Full dark · bars show when each body is above the horizon
Planets tonight
Mars
Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 43° up in the south.
Jupiter
Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 39° up in the south-southeast.
Saturn
–, highest around , 27° up in the south.
Uranus binoculars
Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 47° up in the south.
Neptune binoculars
–, highest around , 25° up in the south.
"Visible" means at least 5° above the horizon (15° for Uranus and Neptune) while the Sun is more than 6° below it. Directions: N, NE, E… are compass points along the horizon.
The next 7 nights
| Night of | Sunset | Dark | Moon | Moonrise / set | Moon-free dark | Planets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 27 Oct | – | 95% | ↑ ↓ | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Wed 28 Oct | – | 89% | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | ||
| Thu 29 Oct | – | 81% | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | ||
| Fri 30 Oct | – | 71% | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | ||
| Sat 31 Oct | – | 60% | ↑ ↓ | 35 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Sun 1 Nov | – | 48% | ↑ ↓ | 2 h 45 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Mon 2 Nov | – | 37% | ↑ ↓ | 4 h 50 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn |
Moon calendar for October 2026 in Reykjavík
1 Thu
73%
2 Fri
62%
3 Sat
51%
4 Sun
39%
↑ ↓
5 Mon
29%
↓
6 Tue
19%
↑ ↓
7 Wed
11%
↑ ↓
8 Thu
5%
↑ ↓
9 Fri
2%
↑ ↓
10 Sat
0%
↑ ↓
11 Sun
1%
↑ ↓
12 Mon
4%
↑ ↓
13 Tue
8%
↑ ↓
14 Wed
14%
15 Thu
22%
16 Fri
30%
17 Sat
39%
18 Sun
48%
↑ ↓
19 Mon
58%
↑ ↓
20 Tue
67%
↑
21 Wed
76%
↑ ↓
22 Thu
84%
↑ ↓
23 Fri
91%
↑ ↓
24 Sat
96%
↑ ↓
25 Sun
99%
↑ ↓
26 Mon
100%
↑ ↓
27 Tue
97%
↑ ↓
28 Wed
92%
29 Thu
85%
30 Fri
76%
31 Sat
65%
↑ ↓
Illumination at local noon; ↑ moonrise, ↓ moonset, local time. Phase dates for the whole world: Moon phases October 2026.
Planets this month from Reykjavík
Coming meteor showers
Southern Taurids
Best on the night of Thu 5 Nov around , when the radiant is 41° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 5 meteors an hour.
Moon 12% at peak
Northern Taurids
Best on the night of Thu 12 Nov around , when the radiant is 48° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 4 meteors an hour.
Moon 11% at peak
Leonids
Best on the night of Tue 17 Nov around , when the radiant is 44° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 10 meteors an hour, fewer this year because the Moon is 55% lit.
Moon 55% at peak
Rate = the shower's zenithal hourly rate × the sine of the radiant's altitude. Real counts are lower from towns and with moonlight; treat this as an upper guide.
Eclipses seen from Reykjavík
- Penumbral lunar eclipse, 20 February 2027: the Moon is 29° up at greatest eclipse.
- Total solar eclipse, 2 August 2027: partial, 0.13 of the Sun's diameter covered (6% of its area), maximum around , Sun 25° up.
- Partial lunar eclipse, 12 January 2028: the Moon is 40° up at greatest eclipse.
- Annular solar eclipse, 26 January 2028: partial, 0.27 of the Sun's diameter covered (16% of its area), maximum around , Sun 1° up.
- Total lunar eclipse, 31 December 2028: the Moon is 5° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
- Partial solar eclipse, 12 June 2029: partial, 0.4 of the Sun's diameter covered (28% of its area), maximum around , Sun 1° up.
- Total lunar eclipse, 20 December 2029: the Moon is 40° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
- Annular solar eclipse, 1 June 2030: partial, 0.36 of the Sun's diameter covered (24% of its area), maximum around , Sun 10° up.
- Penumbral lunar eclipse, 9 December 2030: the Moon is 38° up at greatest eclipse.
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