ClockAstronomical

Planetary Positions by Date

Watch the Sun, Moon, planets, and lunar nodes move through the tropical or Lahiri sidereal zodiac. Choose any supported UTC date, then inspect each body's sign, degree, longitude, and retrograde status.

Proleptic Gregorian UTC · Available AD 1000–3000
Western Vedic (Lahiri)
Mean Nodes True Nodes
Symbols Initials

Bodies marked orange are retrograde.

Planet Degree Table

▼
Body Sign Degree Longitude Retrograde

What you're looking at

The zodiac is the clock face

Aries sits at the top. The wheel reads clockwise, same as a real clock — each sign is one "hour" of thirty degrees.

Learn how to read the zodiac wheel

Planets are moving indicators

Every marker is a calculated geocentric longitude for the selected UTC instant. Dates outside 1900–2100 are extended / approximate and are not covered by the 0.1° accuracy target.

Understand the range and accuracy

Not a prediction tool

ClockAstronomical shows where things are, not what they mean. There are no horoscopes, interpretations, or forecasts anywhere in this app.

Read about the tool's scope

Interactive planetary position guide

Explore planetary positions on an interactive zodiac wheel

ClockAstronomical is an interactive planetary positions calculator for exploring where the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the North and South lunar nodes lie in the zodiac at one UTC instant. Use the interactive chart above to start at the current time, enter another supported date, or play time forward and backward. The wheel and Planet Degree Table describe the same calculated snapshot.

Current, historical, and future planetary positions

Select Now when you want current planetary positions. To look up historical or future planetary positions, enter a complete date and time in UTC so the result refers to one precise instant rather than an entire day. The planetary positions by date and time guide explains the input workflow, while the historical and future positions guide provides worked examples.

The available range is AD 1000 through 3000. ClockAstronomical's 0.1° accuracy target applies only from 1900 through 2100; dates outside that interval are labelled Extended / approximate. Read the full date-range and accuracy policy before relying on a long-range comparison.

Planet signs, degrees, longitude, and retrograde status

Open the Planet Degree Table to see each body's zodiac sign, degree within that sign, full 0–360° longitude, and motion marker. The planetary ephemeris guide explains how those fields describe one coordinate in different forms. If you are checking which planets were retrograde on a date, the retrograde planets by date guide explains what the orange R means and why it is a status marker rather than an exact station-time finder.

Watch planets move through the zodiac

The interactive zodiac wheel places Aries at the top and plots increasing longitude clockwise. Playback makes planetary motion over time easier to compare, and filters can isolate individual bodies without changing the calculation. The display is an Earth-centred longitude view—not a scale model of planetary orbits or a location-based night-sky map.

Compare tropical and Lahiri sidereal positions

The chart defaults to the tropical zodiac and can switch to Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) sidereal positions for the same UTC instant. Because the two systems use different zero points, a body can appear at a different sign or degree even though the calculated instant has not changed. Read the tropical versus sidereal comparison for the coordinate distinction, or visit About ClockAstronomical for the calculation's method and limits.