Moon Phase Today Konya

Moon Phase Today Konya: Last Quarter

On Sunday, October 4, 2026, the moon in Konya is a Last Quarter with 45% illumination. Moon age: 22.6 days.

Illumination
45%
Moon Age
22.6d
Next Full Moon
Oct 26
Distance
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☽ Moonrise
—
↑ Highest
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☾ Moonset
3:06 PM

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☽ Best Places to View the Moon in Konya, Turkey

Konya sits on the broad, flat Central Anatolian plain, so most of the city has open horizons, and the Moon rises in the east over the plain, climbs to its highest point in the southern sky, and sets in the west. Historic hills, open parks, traditional neighborhoods and landscaped gardens give Moon watchers several different settings, from the heart of the city to the hills and water around Sille, and the Konya Science Center offers a telescope and a planetarium. Exact Moonrise and Moonset directions change with the date and your observing position, so check both before planning a specific composition.

Alaeddin Hill – Historic Hill in the City Centre

Alaeddin Hill is one of Konya's most prominent historic locations in the city center. Alaeddin Mosque stands on the hill, alongside remains associated with the Seljuk palace. The elevated setting and central location make it a useful urban setting for photographing the Moon with Konya's historic skyline. Alaeddin Mosque keeps its own visiting arrangements, so check access before an evening visit.

Sille Seyir Tepesi – Viewing Hill Above Sille

Sille Seyir Tepesi is an elevated viewing and recreation area above Sille with broad views across Konya and the surrounding plain. Its wide outlook makes it particularly useful for landscape-style lunar photography, where the Moon remains part of a larger scene rather than filling the entire frame. Check current access before an evening visit, and take care on the hillside in the dark.

Sille Historic Village – About 10 km from the Centre

About 10 km from central Konya, Sille is a historic settlement with churches, chapels, mansions, traditional buildings, and a valley landscape. GoTürkiye also highlights the area's natural features, including its river, forest, and dam lake, giving lunar photographers several different types of foreground.

Sille Dam Park – Reservoir, Boardwalks and Kite Hill

Sille Dam Park, opened by Selçuklu Municipality, surrounds the Sille Himmet Ölçmen Dam, a reservoir with a surface area of about 221,000 square metres. The park has wooden boardwalks, a pier, a boat-trip area, a lawn amphitheatre, a tea garden and a kite hill. The combination of water, open areas, and surrounding terrain offers an option for photographing the Moon as part of a wider landscape, and a calm evening can give a reflection. Check the posted hours before an evening visit.

Kyoto Japanese Park – Landscaped Gardens in Selçuklu

Kyoto Japanese Park in Selçuklu is a Japanese-style landscaped park created through the relationship between Konya and Kyoto. The park includes a pond, viewing terraces, bridges, small islands, stone lanterns, and landscaped gardens, providing a distinctive foreground for Moon photography. Check the park's current hours before an evening visit.

Konya Science Center – Telescopes and Planetarium

The Konya Science Center, on Ankara Road, opened in 2014 as the first TÜBİTAK-supported science centre in Turkey. It has an observation tower with a telescope and a planetarium with a 14-metre tilted dome, and it holds public sky-watching events in its garden. At one in June 2026, nearly a thousand visitors looked at the crescent Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury through telescopes. Check its current schedule, since observing depends on the weather.

◉ Best Times for Moon Photography in Konya

🌕 Full Moon ±1 day: generally rises near sunset and sets near sunrise. Check exact moonrise time and azimuth for your chosen viewpoint
🌅 Moonrise over the Konya Plain — flat ground gives an open eastern horizon
💧 Reflections at Sille Dam Park on calm evenings
🔭 Telescope events — Konya Science Center, on set dates

📷 Quick Tips for Konya

🎯 Use the Full Moon strategically — The Full Moon is extremely bright, but the period around Full Moon can be excellent for landscape compositions when you want recognizable lunar detail together with the surrounding scenery. A tripod keeps horizons steady for longer exposures.
📷 Expose for the Moon first — The lunar surface is much brighter than the surrounding night landscape. Start with a low ISO, fast shutter speed, and relatively narrow aperture, then adjust according to the brightness of the landscape. Shoot RAW and bracket to keep both the lunar disc and the foreground.
📏 Try the Looney 11 rule — For a bright Moon, f/11 with a shutter speed close to the reciprocal of your ISO, for example ISO 100 at 1/100s, is a useful starting exposure. It is a starting point rather than a fixed setting, so refine it with your histogram.
🌕 Use a telephoto lens for landmark compositions — A longer focal length, often 200–400 mm on a full-frame camera, can make the Moon appear larger relative to distant subjects. This works especially well when the Moon is low above the horizon and you have a recognizable foreground.
🧭 Check the Moonrise direction — The Moon does not rise from the same compass point every night. Check its predicted azimuth for your chosen date before deciding whether a particular hill, reservoir, building, or skyline will be in the right position.
🌧 Check visibility before leaving — Clouds, dust, haze, and atmospheric conditions can reduce contrast around a low Moon. Check the latest cloud and visibility forecast shortly before your planned shoot, and bring a warm layer, since evenings on the plateau can be cold.

🕐 Timezone: Konya uses Turkey Time (TRT), UTC+3, throughout the year. Turkey has used a single permanent time zone since September 2016 and does not observe a seasonal daylight-saving clock change. Europe/Istanbul zone.

🔭 Telescope Nights: The Konya Science Center, on Ankara Road, has an observation tower with a telescope, a planetarium, and a garden used for public sky-watching events with telescopes. Events run on set dates, so check its current schedule.

Access: Sille Dam Park and Kyoto Japanese Park are municipal parks with their own hours. Alaeddin Mosque keeps its own visiting arrangements. Check current access before an evening visit.

Planning a Moonrise shot? Check the Moon's exact rise time, azimuth, and altitude for your chosen Konya location. Then compare its predicted path with the skyline, hills, reservoir, or landmark you want in the frame. A small change in viewpoint can make a large difference to the final composition.

The moon phase today in Konya is shown above. For moon phase today anywhere else, visit the calculator on our home page.

◐ What It Feels Like

Konya offers a very different Moon-watching experience from Turkey's coastal cities. The city sits on the broad Central Anatolian plateau, and the surrounding landscape can feel expansive when the Moon is low above the horizon. From an elevated viewpoint, the city spreads beneath the night sky while the Moon gradually climbs above the plain.

Alaeddin Hill brings the Moon into the historic center of the city. The hill is home to Alaeddin Mosque and remains associated with the Seljuk palace, creating a setting where lunar photography can combine Konya's modern skyline with one of its most important historic locations.

Sille provides a more intimate landscape. Its historic buildings, valley setting, natural surroundings, and elevated viewpoints create foreground possibilities that are very different from the city center. From the surrounding hills, the scene opens toward the Konya plain.

Around Sille Dam Park, the emphasis shifts toward open space, water and the kite hill. These settings can work especially well when you want the Moon to remain part of a broader landscape rather than filling most of the frame, with the reservoir giving a chance of a reflection on a calm night.

The Konya Science Center offers something the viewpoints cannot: a look through a telescope. On a clear event night, families queue in the garden for a view of the Moon and planets, and when the sky is cloudy the planetarium takes over.

"In Konya, the Moon is often most striking when you let the landscape stay in the photograph — rising above the broad Anatolian plain, appearing beside a historic landmark, or reflected in the water at Sille."

✓ Checklist for Lunar Observers

Before You Go

  • Check the Moonrise or Moonset time for your exact Konya location
  • Check the Moon's azimuth and altitude, not just the rise/set time
  • Use PhotoPills or Stellarium to preview the Moon's position relative to your chosen landmark
  • Check the latest cloud and visibility forecast
  • Confirm current hours for the park or site you plan to visit, and check the Konya Science Center's schedule if you want a telescope

What to Bring

  • Camera with a suitable telephoto or zoom lens
  • Tripod for landscape compositions and longer exposures
  • Extra batteries and memory cards
  • Lens cloth, and a warm layer, since evenings on the plateau can be cold
  • Phone with your Moon-position or sky-planning app

On the Night

  • Arrive before Moonrise if you want to compose the landscape in advance
  • Keep some landscape in the frame when photographing a low Moon
  • Use manual focus and check sharpness on the Moon before shooting
  • Bracket exposures when photographing both the Moon and darker surroundings
  • Try several viewpoints as the Moon climbs higher above the horizon, and take care on hillsides and boardwalks in the dark
Start at Alaeddin Hill for the historic centre, Sille Seyir Tepesi and Sille Dam Park for wide views and reflections over the plain and the water, Kyoto Japanese Park for a landscaped foreground, and the Konya Science Center to see the Moon through a telescope.

? Konya Moon Phase — Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is the moon phase today in Konya?

The moon phase today in Konya is a Last Quarter with 45% illumination. The next full moon is in 23 days, on 26 Oct. Moonrise is at — and moonset at 3:06 PM.

Q. Where is the best place to view the moon in Konya?

Konya sits on a broad, flat plain, so most of the city has open horizons and the Moon rises over the plain. Alaeddin Hill, in the city centre, has Alaeddin Mosque and the remains of the Seljuk palace. Sille, a historic village about 10 km from the centre, has an elevated viewing area, Sille Seyir Tepesi, with wide views over the plain, and Sille Dam Park, around the Sille Himmet Ölçmen reservoir, has water, boardwalks and a kite hill. Kyoto Japanese Park in Selçuklu has a pond, bridges and stone lanterns, and the Konya Science Center has an observation tower and a garden used for sky-watching events.

Q. Can I look at the moon through a telescope in Konya?

Yes. The Konya Science Center, the first TÜBİTAK-supported science centre in Turkey, opened in 2014 on Ankara Road, with an observation tower with a telescope and a planetarium with a 14 m tilted dome. It holds public sky-watching events: at one in June 2026 nearly a thousand visitors looked at the crescent moon, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury through telescopes in its garden, and its Gökyüzü Şenliği sky festival in September 2026 included telescope observations, moon-phase workshops and planetarium shows. Check the centre's current schedule, since observing depends on the weather.

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

At about 37.9°N, Konya's moonrise and moonset points swing widely across the horizon each month, from roughly east-north-east to east-south-east for rising and west-north-west to west-south-west for setting, with an even wider swing in years near a major lunar standstill. A full moon near the winter solstice climbs to roughly 75° in the south, while a full moon near the summer solstice stays lower, peaking near 29°. Because the plain is flat, a rising moon comes up over an open horizon, and from the hills around Sille the view opens out over the plain. Check the azimuth for your date and exact spot.

Q. Is light pollution a problem for moon observing in Konya?

The moon is bright enough to observe and photograph from almost anywhere in Konya, so light pollution rarely limits the lunar disc itself. It does wash out earthshine on a thin crescent and any faint sky detail. Konya is a large city, so stars are faint in the centre and at the viewpoints around it. The Konya Science Center has taken its sky-watching events to the Love Valley in Cappadocia to get away from city lights, and for darker skies you need to leave the city.

Q. What camera settings and phases work best for moon photography in Konya?

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 landscape, so shoot RAW and bracket or blend exposures to keep both crater detail and the foreground. A full moon is not always the best phase for showing surface relief, but the days around it suit landscape compositions. For a moon-and-landmark shot, move farther back and use a longer focal length of 200 mm or more, with a sturdy tripod and manual focus on the moon's edge using magnified live view. The moon illusion makes a low moon look huge, but it is perceptual, not a change in size. Sille Dam Park's reservoir can give a reflection when the water is calm.

Q. How do dry air, haze and cold affect moon viewing in Konya?

Konya sits on a high, dry plateau with a semi-arid climate, hot dry summers and cold winters, so clear nights are common, but winter nights can be very cold, and evenings are cool even in summer. Dust and haze can soften a low moon near the horizon. Check cloud cover and visibility shortly before your shoot, and bring a warm layer, since exposed viewpoints such as Sille's hills can be windier and colder than the city.

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

Konya runs on Turkey Time, UTC+3, all year. Turkey has used a single permanent time zone since September 2016 and does not change its clocks. Moonrise and moonset times on this page follow the local clock. Konya lies at about 32.5°E, west of the 45°E meridian on which UTC+3 is based, so the sun and moon cross the sky about 50 minutes later on the clock than they would on that meridian.

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

Mostly yes, with care, but check each site. Sille Dam Park and Kyoto Japanese Park are municipal parks, so check their posted hours before an evening visit, and take care on hillsides and boardwalks in the dark. Alaeddin Hill is a historic site in the city centre, and Alaeddin Mosque keeps its own visiting arrangements. The Konya Science Center's observation tower and planetarium run on a schedule, and its sky-watching events are held on set dates, not every night.