December 25, 2026

The sky over Kansas City

Christmas

Moon

Waning gibbous

94% illuminated

Moonrise / moonset

6:56 PM – 9:14 AM

Also up that night

M45 — Pleiades72° up
M44 — Praesepe16° up
M31 — Andromeda64° up
M42 — Orion Nebula33° up
M39 — 33° up
M35 — 48° up

Around 21:00 local time the moon was up over Kansas City — a waning gibbous, 94% lit. Local time here is estimated from Kansas City'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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