Moon Phase Today Surrey BC

Moon Phase Today Surrey BC: New Moon

On Friday, October 9, 2026, the moon in Surrey is a New Moon with 0% illumination. Moon age: 28.9 days.

Illumination
0%
Moon Age
28.9d
Next Full Moon
Oct 25
Distance
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☽ Moonrise
6:29 AM
↑ Highest
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☾ Moonset
6:02 PM

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☽ Best Places to View the Moon in Surrey, British Columbia

Surrey is a city in British Columbia located south of the Fraser River on the Canada–United States border, part of the Metro Vancouver region. The Fraser River lies to the north with the Nicomekl and Serpentine Rivers flowing through the community.

Bear Creek Park – Gardens and Trails

Sprawling park featuring walking trails, picnic areas, playgrounds, beautiful gardens and a miniature train in summer. Features open lawns, themed plantings and family activities with broad sky pockets along trails. Check current hours — many areas are daylight to evening.

Green Timbers Urban Forest – Calming Trail Network

Urban forest in the heart of the city perfect for nature walks with educational programs about local flora and fauna. Offers forested paths and trail network with natural clearings. Provides natural settings rather than a dark-sky site — check current hours as trails are generally dawn to dusk.

Crescent Beach and Blackie Spit – Boundary Bay Waterfront

Tranquil waterfront escape with sandy shores along Boundary Bay offering picturesque views of ocean and mountains. Ideal for beach lovers with open horizons over water for sunset and moonrise. The river and bay junction creates interesting water and skyline compositions with open views along the shoreline.

Holland Park – Downtown Central Park

Central Surrey park near City Centre with open lawns, gardens and event space. Offers open sky pockets in the urban core for twilight viewing within posted hours. Hosts community events and provides skyline foregrounds.

Tynehead Regional Park – Forested Trails

Regional park with forested trails, river views and historic farm buildings. Provides more secluded natural settings away from downtown lighting with trail clearings and river corridor views. Check current hours — generally dawn to dusk.

Redwood Park – Wooded Grove and Heritage Trees

Wooded park with heritage trees, picnic areas and trails. Known for its grove of towering trees and natural clearings offering filtered sky views. Best for moonrise and twilight compositions when the Moon is above the horizon before closing.

◉ Best Times for Moon Photography in Surrey

🌕 Full Moon: rises near sunset, sets near sunrise — check azimuth for your date, direction varies through the month
🌔 Waxing gibbous: useful for evening and twilight over Boundary Bay and Fraser River
🌑 New Moon: darker skies away from downtown lighting

📷 Quick Tips for Surrey

🎯 Use a tripod for bracketing and reflections over water, which helps during blue hour and for smooth water effects.
📷 Shoot RAW and bracket your exposure because the Moon is much brighter than the foreground.
📏 Start with Looney 11 — set f/11, ISO 100, 1/100s — and then adjust your exposure using the histogram as a starting point.
🌕 Use a 200–400mm lens to isolate the Moon over distant foregrounds like bay horizons and forest ridges.
🌃 Focus using magnified live view to get sharp crater detail.
🌧 Check cloud, haze and wind before you go, and bring warm layers for evening viewing near the water.

🕐 Timezone
Pacific Time – PST UTC-8, PDT UTC-7 during daylight-saving. America/Vancouver.

📍 Geography Note
Surrey is located south of the Fraser River and north of the Canada–United States border in southwestern British Columbia. It is part of the Metro Vancouver region with the Fraser River to the north and the Nicomekl and Serpentine Rivers flowing through the community.

The city has over 200 parks and extensive green space, including urban forests, regional parks with forested paths, and waterfront beaches along Boundary Bay. For viewing, waterfront parks provide open bay horizons, while urban forest and regional parks provide trail clearings and natural waterfront settings.

For evening moon photography, check park closing times carefully. Many city parks are generally dawn to dusk and best suited to moonrise, twilight and early-evening compositions when the Moon is above the horizon before closing. For later-night observing, use a location where nighttime access is explicitly permitted. For moonrise direction, check azimuth for your particular date — it varies throughout the lunar month.

Use waterfront beaches for open Boundary Bay horizons and urban forests for natural clearings. The moon phase today in Surrey, British Columbia is shown above. For moon phase today anywhere else, visit the calculator on our home page.

◐ What It Feels Like

At Crescent Beach, sandy shores along Boundary Bay open to ocean and mountain views with wide sky for sunset and moonrise.

At Bear Creek Park, gardens, open lawns and a miniature train create family-friendly clearings with broad sky pockets.

At Green Timbers and Tynehead, forested trails wind through urban forest with educational programs and historic farm settings.

"South of the Fraser River on the US border, with waterfront beaches for open bay horizons and urban forests and regional parks for natural clearings."

✓ Checklist for Lunar Observers

Before You Go

  • Check Moonrise azimuth for your date — direction varies through the month, not always over the bay
  • Check park hours — many parks are dawn to dusk, with evening events by approval only
  • Confirm current trail access and any seasonal closures

What to Bring

  • Telephoto and wide lenses for bay and forest compositions
  • Tripod for bracketing and reflections
  • Lens cloth for coastal humidity
  • Warm layers for evening bay winds

On the Night

  • Check exact azimuth and elevation — varies nightly
  • Bracket for lunar detail and park lights during twilight window
  • Stay on marked trails and respect posted closing times
Start with waterfront beaches for open Boundary Bay horizons at twilight, use central parks for open lawns and skyline foregrounds, and use urban forests and regional parks for natural clearings within posted hours.

? Surrey, BC Moon Phase — Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is the moon phase today in Surrey, BC?

The moon phase today in Surrey, BC is a New Moon with 0% illumination. The next full moon is in 17 days, on Oct 25. Moonrise is at 6:29 AM and moonset at 6:02 PM.

Q. Where is the best place to view the moon in Surrey, BC?

Crescent Beach and Blackie Spit on Boundary Bay give Surrey its most open horizon, with sandy shoreline and wide views over the water. Bear Creek Park has gardens and open lawns with broad pockets of sky, and Holland Park near City Centre gives open lawns with an urban skyline foreground. For a more natural setting, Green Timbers Urban Forest, Tynehead Regional Park and Redwood Park have forested trails with clearings and filtered sky views.

Q. Where does the moon rise and set in Surrey, BC, and how high does it climb?

At about 49.2°N, Surrey's moonrise and moonset points swing widely across the horizon each month, from roughly northeast to southeast for rising and northwest to southwest for setting, with an even wider swing in years near a major lunar standstill. A full moon near the winter solstice climbs high in the south, to roughly 64° above the horizon, while a full moon near the summer solstice follows a low southern path, peaking near 17°. Boundary Bay lies to the west of Crescent Beach, so the shoreline suits a setting moon over the water, while a rising moon comes up over land to the east. On clear evenings, Mount Baker is visible to the southeast, and on some dates a rising moon lines up near it, so check the azimuth for your date and exact spot.

Q. Is light pollution a problem for moon observing in Surrey, BC?

The moon is bright enough to observe and photograph from almost anywhere in Surrey, so light pollution rarely limits the lunar disc itself. It does wash out earthshine on a thin crescent and any faint sky detail. Surrey is part of Metro Vancouver, with substantial artificial lighting across City Centre and the main road corridors, so it is a light-polluted site rather than a dark-sky one. The forest cover at Green Timbers, Tynehead and Redwood Park can screen some direct lights, and the open water at Boundary Bay keeps lights out of the western view, but the overall regional glow remains.

Q. What camera settings and phases work best for moon photography in Surrey, BC?

For a full moon, start with Looney 11 (f/11, ISO 100, 1/100 s) and refine using your histogram, since it is a baseline rather than a guarantee. The moon is much brighter than the bay, forest and city lights, so shoot RAW and bracket or blend exposures to keep both crater detail and the foreground. A waxing gibbous is useful for evening twilight over Boundary Bay while the foreground is still lit. A 200–400 mm lens helps isolate the moon over the bay horizon or against a forest ridge, with a tripod for bracketing and manual focus on the moon using magnified live view. Boundary Bay can give a reflection when the water is calm and lies between you and the moon.

Q. How do rain, cloud and fog affect moon viewing in Surrey, BC?

Surrey has a mild, wet coastal climate, and the late autumn and winter months bring frequent rain and long stretches of cloud, so clear lunar windows can be short. Fog and low cloud can settle over Boundary Bay and the river lowlands on calm nights. Summers are drier and clearer, the best season for moon viewing, though wildfire smoke in some summers can dim and redden the moon near the horizon. Wind off the bay can shake a tripod at Crescent Beach. Check Environment and Climate Change Canada forecasts for cloud, rain, fog and smoke before heading out.

Q. What time zone are Surrey's moonrise and moonset times shown in?

Surrey runs on Pacific Time, which British Columbia has set at UTC−7 year-round. The province made its last clock change on March 8, 2026, and from November 1, 2026 clocks no longer go back in the fall, so moonrise and moonset times stay on the same UTC−7 clock in every season. Washington State, just across the border, still switches between UTC−8 and UTC−7, so in winter Surrey is one hour ahead of Blaine and Seattle.

Q. Can I shoot the moon at Surrey's viewpoints after dark?

Access varies by site. Many of Surrey's parks are generally open dawn to dusk, so they suit moonrise, twilight and early-evening compositions rather than late-night sessions. Tynehead Regional Park and the forested trails at Green Timbers and Redwood Park are best visited before closing. Check posted hours at each park and any seasonal trail closures, and for later-night observing, choose a location where nighttime access is explicitly permitted.

Q. Does this page work for cities besides Surrey, BC?

This page is set up specifically for Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. For the moon phase in any other city or location worldwide, use the Dynamic Moon Phase Calculator on the moonphase.today home page.