Lunar Calendar Month April 2025 (South Africa)

The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth and the fifth largest moon in the Solar System. It is the largest natural satellite in the solar system relative to the size of its planet. The following is information specific for Pretoria, South Africa during April 2025.

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Date and time of moon phases

The information in the following table comes from calculations published by the Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory.

Moon phases	Dates	Time
1st quarter	2025-04-05	04:15
full moon	2025-04-13	02:22
3rd quarter	2025-04-21	03:35
new moon	2025-04-27	21:31

Apogee and perigee of the Moon

The following table shows the dates of perigee and apogee of the Moon during April 2025.

Position	Dates	Time	Distance	Notes
Apogee	2025-04-14	00:49	406,294 km
Perigee	2025-04-27	18:16	357,118 km

Moon-Planet Conjunctions

A Moon-planet conjunction occurs when an astronomical object has either the same, or nearly the same, right ascension or the same ecliptic longitude of that of the Moon, as observed from Earth.

Astronomical Objects	Date and Time
Pleiades	2025-04-01 22:28
Pollux	2025-04-05 18:46
Mars	2025-04-05 21:04
Beehive	2025-04-06 18:44
Regulus	2025-04-08 13:51
Spica	2025-04-13 03:39
Antares	2025-04-17 00:19
Venus	2025-04-25 03:21
Saturn	2025-04-25 06:15
Mercury	2025-04-26 03:05
Pleiades	2025-04-29 08:35

Illumination of the Moon

The following table depicts the illumination of the Moon, calculated at 00:00, throughtout the 30 days of April 2025.

The information of the moon (phases of the moon, cycles of the moon) presented here applies to all the territory of South Africa.

April 2025
w	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 14	31 Monday	1Tuesday 9% illuminated Age: 2.9	2Wednesday 17% illuminated Age: 4	3Thursday 26.6% illuminated Age: 5.1	4Friday 37.1% illuminated Age: 6.2	5Saturday 48% illuminated Age: 7.2	6Sunday 58.6% illuminated Age: 8.2
Week 15	7Monday 68.6% illuminated Age: 9.2	8Tuesday 77.5% illuminated Age: 10.1	9Wednesday 85.2% illuminated Age: 11.1	10Thursday 91.5% illuminated Age: 12	11Friday 96.1% illuminated Age: 12.9	12Saturday 98.9% illuminated Age: 13.8	13Sunday 100% illuminated Age: 14.7
Week 16	14Monday 99.3% illuminated Age: 15.6	15Tuesday 96.7% illuminated Age: 16.5	16Wednesday 92.6% illuminated Age: 17.4	17Thursday 86.8% illuminated Age: 18.3	18Friday 79.6% illuminated Age: 19.2	19Saturday 71.2% illuminated Age: 20.1	20Sunday 61.8% illuminated Age: 21
Week 17	21Monday 51.6% illuminated Age: 22	22Tuesday 41.1% illuminated Age: 23	23Wednesday 30.7% illuminated Age: 24	24Thursday 20.8% illuminated Age: 25.1	25Friday 12.1% illuminated Age: 26.2	26Saturday 5.4% illuminated Age: 27.3	27Sunday 1.2% illuminated Age: 28.5
Week 18	28Monday 0% illuminated Age: 0.1	29Tuesday 1.9% illuminated Age: 1.3	30Wednesday 6.7% illuminated Age: 2.5	1 Thursday	2 Friday	3 Saturday	4 Sunday
	5 Monday	6 Tuesday	7 Wednesday	8 Thursday	9 Friday	10 Saturday	11 Sunday
	12 Monday	13 Tuesday	14 Wednesday	15 Thursday	16 Friday	17 Saturday	18 Sunday