New Moon: November 2025

The short answer

The New Moon in November 2025 is exact at 06:49 UTC on 20 November 2025, at 28.2° Scorpio.

The New Moon in November 2025 is exact at 06:49 UTC on 20 November 2025, at 28.2° Scorpio.

Exact instant: 06:49 UTC on 20 November 2025, at 28.2° Scorpio.

CityLocal time
Sydney5:49 pm AEDT, Nov 20
London6:49 AM GMT, Nov 20
New York1:49 AM EST, Nov 20
Los Angeles10:49 PM PST, Nov 19
Mumbai12:19 PM GMT+5:30, Nov 20
Tokyo3:49 PM GMT+9, Nov 20

The sky at that moment

3rd decan of Scorpio (28.2°), the Cancer third of the sign, traditionally ruled by the Moon.

  • The Moon is 0.3° from a conjunction with Mercury.
  • The Moon is 1.3° from a trine to Neptune.
  • The Moon is 1.3° from an opposition to Uranus.
  • The Moon is 3.0° from a trine to Saturn.
  • The Moon is 3.2° from a trine to Jupiter.
  • The Moon is 3.5° from a sextile to Pluto.

Nineteen years earlier, on Tuesday 21 November 2006 (Sydney), the New Moon fell at 28.5° Scorpio, 0.3° from this one: the Moon's phases come back to almost the same dates every 19 years.

Seeing it from Australia

A New Moon cannot be seen. From Australia the first thin crescent shows low in the west after sunset a day or two later, lit on its left side (in the Northern Hemisphere it is lit on the right).

Moonrise and moonset on 2025-11-20, local time
CityMoonriseMoonset
Brisbaneabout 4:16 am AESTabout 6:28 pm AEST
Sydneyabout 5:09 am AEDTabout 7:53 pm AEDT
Melbourneabout 5:23 am AEDTabout 8:31 pm AEDT
Adelaideabout 5:27 am ACDTabout 8:18 pm ACDT
Hobartabout 4:58 am AEDTabout 8:39 pm AEDT
Perthabout 4:38 am AWSTabout 7:14 pm AWST
Darwinabout 5:48 am ACSTabout 6:57 pm ACST

Where it falls, by rising sign

What a new moon tends to do in a house: New Moon meaning.

Rising signWhere this new moon falls for you
AriesYour 8th house: joint finances, debt, tax, inheritance, and what you only say in private.
TaurusYour 7th house: your significant other, close business partners, and open opponents.
GeminiYour 6th house: the actual work of your days, routines, and your body's upkeep.
CancerYour 5th house: romance, flirtation, children, and anything you make for the joy of it.
LeoYour 4th house: home, family, where you are from, and your private life.
VirgoYour 3rd house: conversations, messages, short trips, siblings and neighbours.
LibraYour 2nd house: the money you earn, what you own, and what you think you are worth.
ScorpioYour 1st house: you, your body, your appearance, the first impression you make.
SagittariusYour 12th house: rest, retreat, endings, and what you have not admitted yet.
CapricornYour 11th house: friends, groups, networks, and what you are aiming at next.
AquariusYour 10th house: your career, your public standing, and the people above you.
PiscesYour 9th house: long trips, study, publishing, law, and what you believe.

Where this time comes from

A lunation is the instant the Sun-Moon angle crosses 0° (New Moon) or 180° (Full Moon), found by scanning the real ephemeris hourly and bisecting to the exact minute. The same engine drives the full moon calendar.

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