Moon Light World Map

The map below shows where the Moon is visible from the Earth, depending on weather conditions and moon phases.
The white dot symbolizes the position of the Moon, and the yellow sun symbolizes the position of the sun.

View Day and Night Map

Map notes

• The bright part of the map shows where the moon is over the horizon on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 06:10:00 UTC.
• The Sun's position is marked with this symbol: . At this location, the Sun will be at its zenith (directly overhead) in relation to an observer.
• The Moon's position is marked with this symbol: . At this location, the Moon will be at its zenith in relation to an observer. Note that the symbol is not showing the current phase of the Moon.

Moon phase

The moon is so close to the Sun that it hard to see from earth.

Fraction of moon illuminated: 2%

Previous phase	Third Quarter	Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 1:57 PM
Next phase	New Moon	Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 7:20 AM

Position of the Moon

On Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 06:10:00 UTC the Moon is at its zenith at these coordinates:

Latitude:	13° 56'	South
Longitude:	75° 28'	East

The ground speed of the movement is currently 433.56 meters/second, 1560.8 km/hour, 969.8 miles/hour or 842.8 knots.The table below shows the Moon position compared to the time and date above:

Time	Longitude difference			Latitude difference			Total
later	Degrees	Distance	Direction	Degrees	Distance	Direction	Distance
1 minute	0° 14' 26.4"	16.16 mi	west	0° 00' 09.5"	0.18 mi	north	16.17 mi
1 hour	14° 26' 34.5"	969.73 mi	west	0° 09' 40.1"	11.08 mi	north	970.13 mi
24 hours	13° 03' 39.2"	876.96 mi	east	4° 11' 34.0"	288.22 mi	north	929.89 mi

Locations with the moon near zenith

The following table shows 10 locations with moon near zenith position in the sky.

Location	Local time	Distance			Direction
Diego Garcia	Sat 12:10 PM	803 km	499 miles	433 nm	NNW
Male	Sat 11:10 AM	2014 km	1252 miles	1088 nm	N
Port Louis	Sat 10:10 AM	2031 km	1262 miles	1097 nm	WSW
Saint-Denis	Sat 10:10 AM	2258 km	1403 miles	1219 nm	WSW
Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte	Sat 11:40 AM	2355 km	1463 miles	1271 nm	NNE
Colombo	Sat 11:40 AM	2357 km	1464 miles	1273 nm	NNE
Victoria	Sat 10:10 AM	2425 km	1507 miles	1310 nm	WNW
Thiruvananthapuram	Sat 11:40 AM	2487 km	1545 miles	1343 nm	N
Bangalore	Sat 11:40 AM	2984 km	1854 miles	1611 nm	N
Antananarivo	Sat 9:10 AM	3032 km	1884 miles	1637 nm	WSW