Lompoc, California, USA

Monday, December 15, 2025

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Lompoc, California, USA

That morning

Sunrise

7:01 AM

7:01 AM

6:33 AM Blue hour
7:01 AM Sunrise
7:40 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

4:52 PM

4:52 PM

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

4:13 PM Golden hour
4:52 PM Sunset
5:20 PM Blue hour ends

Meteor shower

Geminids

Best around 1:52 AM

Very LowExcellent
6:22 PM Dark enough
1:52 AM Best
4:10 AM Moonrise
5:32 AM Too light
Estimate
~89/hour
from a dark spot here, off its peak night
Radiant climbs to
88°
Under a perfect sky
150/hour
Moonlight
No interference
Speed
35 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.

The strongest shower of the year, and you can watch it most of the night.

Event

First day of Hanukkah

First day of Hanukkah in Lompoc - sunset at 4:52 PM

Evening from 4:52 PM

Sunset and evening sky: not known yet

Sunset
4:52 PM
Sun toward WSW
Cloud this evening
Not known yet
Rain chance
Not known yet
This evening
Moon
14% lit
Rises 4:12 AM (after midnight)
Where the Sun is
WSW, 5° up
at 4:22 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.

Moon

Waning crescent

15% lit

3:11 AM – 1:49 PM

ESE WSW
3:11 AM Moonrise
3:32 AM 4°
8:30 AM Highest, 38°
1:28 PM 4°
1:49 PM Moonset

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

Timetable

  • Moonrise 3:12 AM
  • Morning blue hour 6:33 AM–7:01 AM
  • Morning best color 6:58 AM
  • Sunrise 7:01 AM
  • Morning golden hour 7:01 AM–7:40 AM
  • Moonset 1:49 PM
  • Evening golden hour 4:13 PM–4:52 PM
  • Sunset 4:52 PM
  • Evening blue hour 4:52 PM–5:20 PM
  • Fully dark 6:22 PM–5:32 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 6:22 PM–4:12 AM

Upcoming celestial events for Lompoc, California, USA

Tiangong space station Modest pass, NW to NNE, 23 deg up
Thu 29 Oct 2026 7:25 PM Southern Taurids Still active, a few an hour
Thu 29 Oct 2026 7:41 PM International Space Station Modest pass, NNW to ENE, 17 deg up
Fri 30 Oct 2026 6:14 AM Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-18 Excellent, look W
Fri 30 Oct 2026 8:48 PM Halloween Halloween night in Lompoc - waning gibbous moon
Sat 31 Oct 2026 6:00 PM Día de Muertos Día de Muertos in Lompoc - sunset at 5:08 PM
Sun 1 Nov 2026 5:08 PM Partial lunar eclipse 6% of the Moon in shadow
Tue 11 Jan 2028 8:13 PM Partial solar eclipse 51.8% of the Sun covered
Sun 14 Jan 2029 8:20 AM Total lunar eclipse 52% of it above your horizon
Mon 25 Jun 2029 8:22 PM Partial solar eclipse 2% of the Sun covered
Fri 14 Nov 2031 1:32 PM Partial solar eclipse 29.6% of the Sun covered
Wed 30 Mar 2033 10:19 AM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 78 minutes
Fri 7 Oct 2033 3:55 AM Partial solar eclipse 0.6% of the Sun covered
Sun 2 Sep 2035 7:26 PM Total lunar eclipse 49% of it above your horizon
Wed 6 Aug 2036 7:51 PM Partial solar eclipse 3.8% of the Sun covered
Thu 9 Apr 2043 11:39 AM Partial solar eclipse 79.6% of the Sun covered
Tue 23 Aug 2044 7:08 PM Partial solar eclipse 81.5% of the Sun covered
Sat 12 Aug 2045 9:18 AM

Every celestial event, and where else to see it