New Moon: July 2026
The short answer
The New Moon in July 2026 is exact at 09:44 UTC on 14 July 2026, at 22.0° Cancer.
The New Moon in July 2026 is exact at 09:44 UTC on 14 July 2026, at 22.0° Cancer.
Exact instant: 09:44 UTC on 14 July 2026, at 22.0° Cancer.
| City | Local time |
|---|---|
| Sydney | 7:44 pm AEST, Jul 14 |
| London | 10:44 AM GMT+1, Jul 14 |
| New York | 5:44 AM EDT, Jul 14 |
| Los Angeles | 2:44 AM PDT, Jul 14 |
| Mumbai | 3:14 PM GMT+5:30, Jul 14 |
| Tokyo | 6:44 PM GMT+9, Jul 14 |
The sky at that moment
3rd decan of Cancer (22.0°), the Pisces third of the sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter.
- The Moon is 2.1° from a conjunction with Mercury.
Nineteen years earlier, on Saturday 14 July 2007 (Sydney), the New Moon fell at 21.7° Cancer, 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).
| City | Moonrise | Moonset |
|---|---|---|
| Brisbane | about 6:28 am AEST | about 4:55 pm AEST |
| Sydney | about 6:54 am AEST | about 4:44 pm AEST |
| Melbourne | about 7:33 am AEST | about 4:58 pm AEST |
| Adelaide | about 7:20 am ACST | about 5:04 pm ACST |
| Hobart | about 7:43 am AEST | about 4:29 pm AEST |
| Perth | about 7:15 am AWST | about 5:19 pm AWST |
| Darwin | about 6:54 am ACST | about 6:32 pm ACST |
Where it falls, by rising sign
What a new moon tends to do in a house: New Moon meaning.
| Rising sign | Where this new moon falls for you |
|---|---|
| Aries | Your 4th house: home, family, where you are from, and your private life. |
| Taurus | Your 3rd house: conversations, messages, short trips, siblings and neighbours. |
| Gemini | Your 2nd house: the money you earn, what you own, and what you think you are worth. |
| Cancer | Your 1st house: you, your body, your appearance, the first impression you make. |
| Leo | Your 12th house: rest, retreat, endings, and what you have not admitted yet. |
| Virgo | Your 11th house: friends, groups, networks, and what you are aiming at next. |
| Libra | Your 10th house: your career, your public standing, and the people above you. |
| Scorpio | Your 9th house: long trips, study, publishing, law, and what you believe. |
| Sagittarius | Your 8th house: joint finances, debt, tax, inheritance, and what you only say in private. |
| Capricorn | Your 7th house: your significant other, close business partners, and open opponents. |
| Aquarius | Your 6th house: the actual work of your days, routines, and your body's upkeep. |
| Pisces | Your 5th house: romance, flirtation, children, and anything you make for the joy of it. |
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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