Retrograde tracker
Which planet is retrograde right now, at what degree, and when it turns direct. Station dates with times. No account.
Turns retrograde: the planet starts to appear to move backwards. Turns direct: it moves forwards again. All times are in UTC.
- Uranus150 days♋︎ Cancer 0°43′♊︎ Gemini 26°40′
- Neptune159 days♏︎ Scorpio 1°31′♎︎ Libra 28°44′
- Mercury21 days♓︎ Pisces 0°10′♒︎ Aquarius 14°40′
- Venus42 days♈︎ Aries 8°18′♓︎ Pisces 22°10′
- Saturn141 days♑︎ Capricorn 23°46′♑︎ Capricorn 17°09′
- Pluto164 days♒︎ Aquarius 24°49′♒︎ Aquarius 22°29′
- Mercury24 days♊︎ Gemini 28°21′♊︎ Gemini 19°46′
- Jupiter118 days♉︎ Taurus 20°13′♉︎ Taurus 10°13′
- Mercury21 days♎︎ Libra 29°12′♎︎ Libra 13°52′
- Uranus150 days♋︎ Cancer 5°08′♋︎ Cancer 1°04′
Retrograde motion is apparent, not actual: as Earth overtakes a planet in its faster orbit, the planet appears to move backwards against the stars for a while. This page states dates, times and degrees, and nothing else. A station date says nothing about anyone's week, and it is not pretended otherwise here.
Mercury retrograde: 4 Feb – 25 Feb; 2 Jun – 26 Jun; 30 Sept – 22 Oct
Venus retrograde: 28 Feb – 10 Apr
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 8 Sept – 4 Jan 2285
Saturn retrograde: 2 May – 20 Sept
Uranus retrograde: 6 Oct 2283 – 4 Mar; 10 Oct – 9 Mar 2285
Neptune retrograde: 1 Feb – 9 Jul
Pluto retrograde: 25 May – 4 Nov
One row per body. The thin line is the year's course; the thick coloured band marks the days it ran retrograde. Dates are UTC.
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