Luxor, Egypt

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Luxor, Egypt

Event

First day of Hanukkah

First day of Hanukkah in Luxor - sunset at 5:05 PM

Evening from 5:05 PM

Sunset and evening sky: not known yet

Sunset
5:05 PM
Sun toward WSW
Cloud this evening
Not known yet
Rain chance
Not known yet
This evening
Moon
5% lit
Rises 5:25 AM (after midnight)
Where the Sun is
WSW, 5° up
at 4:35 PM

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, lasts eight days from the 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar - in late November or December. It remembers the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees' revolt in the second century BCE, when, the story goes, one day's oil kept the menorah burning for eight.

Like every Jewish day, it begins at sundown: the first candle is lit on the evening before the first day, and one more each night after, lit from the shammash, the helper candle set apart from the rest.

Event

Christmas Day

Christmas night in Luxor - waning crescent moon

Evening from 5:05 PM

Sunset and evening sky: not known yet

Sunset
5:05 PM
Sun toward WSW
Cloud this evening
Not known yet
Rain chance
Not known yet
This evening
Moon
5% lit
Rises 5:25 AM (after midnight)
Where the Moon is
Below the horizon
all through it

Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus. By the fourth century the church in Rome kept it on December 25, close to the winter solstice, when midwinter festivals of light were already held - and lights, evergreens and the star on the tree still brighten the darkest time of the year.

Many Orthodox churches, which follow the older Julian calendar, keep it on January 7.

That morning

Sunrise

6:33 AM

6:33 AM

6:08 AM Blue hour
6:33 AM Sunrise
7:07 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

5:05 PM

5:05 PM

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

4:31 PM Golden hour
5:05 PM Sunset
5:30 PM Blue hour ends

Moon

Waning crescent

6% lit

4:20 AM – 2:57 PM

ESE WSW
4:20 AM Moonrise
4:41 AM 4°
9:38 AM Highest, 39°
2:37 PM 4°
2:57 PM Moonset

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

Timetable

  • Moonrise 4:21 AM
  • Morning blue hour 6:08 AM–6:33 AM
  • Morning best color 6:21 AM
  • Sunrise 6:33 AM
  • Morning golden hour 6:33 AM–7:07 AM
  • Moonset 2:57 PM
  • Evening golden hour 4:31 PM–5:05 PM
  • Sunset 5:05 PM
  • Evening blue hour 5:05 PM–5:30 PM
  • Evening best color 5:23 PM
  • Fully dark 6:27 PM–5:11 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 6:27 PM–5:11 AM

Upcoming celestial events for Luxor, Egypt

Partial lunar eclipse 38% of the Moon in shadow
Thu 6 Jul 2028 9:20 PM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 71 minutes
Sun 31 Dec 2028 6:51 PM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 53 minutes
Thu 20 Dec 2029 12:42 AM Partial solar eclipse 50.1% of the Sun covered
Sat 1 Jun 2030 7:40 AM Partial lunar eclipse 50% of the Moon in shadow
Sat 15 Jun 2030 9:33 PM Partial solar eclipse 2.4% of the Sun covered
Wed 21 May 2031 9:04 AM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 46 minutes
Mon 18 Oct 2032 10:03 PM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 48 minutes
Thu 14 Apr 2033 9:12 PM Partial solar eclipse 91.4% of the Sun covered
Mon 20 Mar 2034 12:55 PM Partial lunar eclipse 10% of the Moon in shadow
Sat 18 Aug 2035 4:11 AM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 74 minutes
Mon 11 Feb 2036 12:12 AM Total lunar eclipse 64% of it above your horizon
Wed 6 Aug 2036 5:51 AM Partial solar eclipse 14% of the Sun covered
Tue 30 Apr 2041 4:15 PM

Every celestial event, and where else to see it