Moon Phase Italy

Moon Phase Italy: New Moon

On Saturday 10 October 2026, the moon phase today in Italy is a New Moon, with 0% illumination. Next full moon: 26 Oct.

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Times shown for Rome (Central European Time). Italy has a single time zone, so they apply nationwide.

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Illumination
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Moon Age
29.0d
Full Moon phase diagram
Next Full Moon
26 Oct
New Moon phase diagram
Next New Moon
10 Oct
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Italy Moon Phase FAQ

On Saturday 10 October 2026, the moon phase today in Italy is a New Moon, with 0% illumination. Next full moon: 26 Oct. The Moon is about 29.0 days into its 29.5-day cycle.
The phase itself doesn't change from place to place — everyone on the night side of Earth sees the same phase at the same moment. What does shift across Italy is moonrise and moonset time, mostly with longitude: the country spans about 12° from the Alps in the northwest to the heel of Italy in the southeast, which moves local rise and set times by up to roughly 45 minutes. The Moon's exact position in the sky also varies with latitude, which changes how high it arcs and at what angle the terminator sits.
All times on this page use Italian local time — Central European Time (CET) in winter and Central European Summer Time (CEST) in summer, with clocks changing on the last Sunday of March and October. Italy uses a single time zone nationwide, so the times shown for any Italian city are already on that local clock.
A full moon happens roughly every 29.5 days — the length of the synodic month, the time it takes the Moon to cycle through all its phases as seen from Earth. That works out to about 12 or 13 full moons a year. Check the "Next Full Moon" figure on the calculator above for the exact upcoming date.
It's a latitude effect, not a different Moon. Italy sits between roughly 36°N and 47°N, so the Moon appears tilted at an angle between the horizontal "smiley face" crescent photographed in the tropics and the near-vertical terminator seen from northern Europe. The further south in Italy you are, the flatter that tilt becomes. See the "Moon Phases Explained" section further down this page for more on how each phase actually looks.
Yes — type any Italian city into the location search on the calculator at the top of this page. We're also building out dedicated pages for individual Italian cities with local viewing spots and tips; browse what's live so far in the "Explore Italian Cities" section above.
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Moon Phases Explained

The Moon doesn't change shape — only the angle of sunlight across its surface does. As it orbits Earth over 29.5 days, that shifting angle produces eight distinct phases, each with its own character and its own best targets for observation.

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How this looks from Italy

Italy's long, narrow shape gives it an unusually wide latitude span for a single country its size — from the Alps near Bolzano at around 47°N down to the island of Lampedusa at roughly 35.5°N, with Rome sitting in between at about 41.9°N. That's a genuinely large enough range for the Moon's terminator to look noticeably steeper in the Dolomites than it does in Sicily. Lampedusa is a striking case on its own: it actually sits further south than Tunis, Tunisia, making it geographically closer to North Africa than to most of mainland Italy. Use the calculator above for exact moonrise, moonset, and phase times wherever you are in Italy.

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