December 25, 2026
The sky over Chicago
Christmas
Moon
Waning gibbous
94% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
6:18 PM – 8:54 AM
Also up that night
- M45 — Pleiades72° up
- M44 — Praesepe22° up
- M31 — Andromeda59° up
- M42 — Orion Nebula34° up
- M41 — 12° up
- M39 — 31° up
Around 21:00 local time the moon was up over Chicago — a waning gibbous, 94% lit. Local time here is estimated from Chicago's longitude rather than looked up from a timezone database — within about an hour almost everywhere (see the free generator for the same trade-off spelled out).
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