Leesburg, Virginia, USA

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

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Leesburg, Virginia, USA

That morning

Sunrise

7:29 AM

7:29 AM

6:59 AM Blue hour
7:29 AM Sunrise
8:11 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

4:58 PM

4:58 PM

Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sun's own times - they will not change.

4:16 PM Golden hour
4:58 PM Sunset
5:28 PM Blue hour ends

Meteor shower

Quadrantids

Best around 5:13 AM

Very LowExcellent
6:28 PM Dark enough
5:13 AM Best
5:59 AM Too light
Estimate
A few/hour
from a dark spot here, off its peak night
Radiant climbs to
52°
Under a perfect sky
110/hour
Moonlight
No interference
Speed
41 km/s

The estimate is how many you might really see from a dark spot here, allowing for how high the shower climbs and for moonlight. "Under a perfect sky" is the best case. The bar also counts the forecast cloud at the best time, so a clouded-out night sits at the bottom, as does rain on the radar now.

Its peak is short: only a few hours either side of it are worth watching.

Event

New Year's Day

New Year's Day in Leesburg - the year's first sunset at 4:58 PM

Evening from 4:58 PM

Sunset and evening sky: not known yet

Sunset
4:58 PM
Sun toward SW
Cloud this evening
Not known yet
Rain chance
Not known yet
This evening
Moon
5% lit
Up from the start
Where the Sun is
SW, 4° up
at 4:28 PM

January 1 has opened the year since the Romans, who gave the month to Janus, the two-faced god of doors and beginnings who looks back to the old year and ahead to the new. Most of the world now counts its years by the Gregorian calendar, and New Year's Day is a holiday nearly everywhere.

The celebrations start the night before, at midnight, and roll west around the world with the clock - from the islands of Kiribati first to American Samoa last.

Moon

Waxing crescent

4% lit

9:10 AM – 6:47 PM

SE WSW
9:10 AM Moonrise
9:34 AM 4°
1:58 PM Highest, 28°
6:22 PM 4°
6:47 PM Moonset

Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.

Timetable

  • Morning blue hour 6:59 AM–7:29 AM
  • Morning best color 7:15 AM
  • Sunrise 7:29 AM
  • Morning golden hour 7:29 AM–8:11 AM
  • Moonrise 9:10 AM
  • Evening golden hour 4:16 PM–4:58 PM
  • Evening best color 4:53 PM
  • Sunset 4:58 PM
  • Evening blue hour 4:58 PM–5:28 PM
  • Fully dark 6:34 PM–5:53 AM
  • Moonset 6:47 PM
  • Dark, no Moon 6:54 PM–5:53 AM

Upcoming celestial events for Leesburg, Virginia, USA

Tiangong space station Bright pass, W to ENE, 54 deg up
Thu 29 Oct 2026 7:20 PM Southern Taurids Still active, a few an hour
Thu 29 Oct 2026 7:43 PM Halloween Halloween night in Leesburg - waning gibbous moon
Sat 31 Oct 2026 6:00 PM Día de Muertos Día de Muertos in Leesburg - sunset at 5:09 PM
Sun 1 Nov 2026 5:09 PM Día de Muertos Día de Muertos in Leesburg - sunset at 5:08 PM Mon 2 Nov 2026 5:08 PM Southern Taurids A few an hour
Wed 4 Nov 2026 6:36 PM Partial lunar eclipse 6% of the Moon in shadow
Tue 11 Jan 2028 11:13 PM Partial solar eclipse 3.2% of the Sun covered
Wed 26 Jan 2028 9:50 AM Partial solar eclipse 42.4% of the Sun covered
Sun 14 Jan 2029 12:43 PM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 101 minutes
Mon 25 Jun 2029 11:22 PM Total lunar eclipse 77% of it above your horizon
Thu 20 Dec 2029 5:42 PM Partial solar eclipse 3.7% of the Sun covered
Fri 14 Nov 2031 4:55 PM Partial solar eclipse 0.3% of the Sun covered
Wed 30 Mar 2033 2:40 PM Total lunar eclipse 61% of it above your horizon
Fri 7 Oct 2033 6:55 AM Partial lunar eclipse 1% of the Moon in shadow
Wed 27 Sep 2034 10:46 PM Partial lunar eclipse 10% of the Moon in shadow
Sat 18 Aug 2035 9:11 PM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 95 minutes
Wed 6 Aug 2036 10:51 PM Partial solar eclipse 61.7% of the Sun covered
Sat 12 Aug 2045 1:23 PM

Every celestial event, and where else to see it