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.
- Jupiter118 days♊︎ Gemini 11°43′♊︎ Gemini 1°42′
- Neptune157 days♍︎ Virgo 1°48′♌︎ Leo 29°01′
- Saturn138 days♏︎ Scorpio 3°49′♎︎ Libra 27°03′
- Mercury23 days♈︎ Aries 24°00′♈︎ Aries 11°31′
- Pluto159 days♑︎ Capricorn 2°02′♐︎ Sagittarius 29°20′
- Uranus154 days♑︎ Capricorn 28°52′♑︎ Capricorn 24°53′
- Mercury24 days♍︎ Virgo 0°24′♌︎ Leo 18°48′
- Jupiter119 days♋︎ Cancer 16°51′♋︎ Cancer 6°47′
- Mars74 days♋︎ Cancer 7°58′♊︎ Gemini 20°33′
- Mercury20 days♐︎ Sagittarius 21°03′♐︎ Sagittarius 4°51′
- Neptune157 days♍︎ Virgo 4°01′♍︎ Virgo 1°13′
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: 30 Mar – 22 Apr; 2 Aug – 26 Aug; 24 Nov – 14 Dec
Venus: no retrograde period this year
Mars retrograde: 11 Nov – 25 Jan 2749
Jupiter retrograde: 1 Oct 2747 – 26 Jan; 4 Nov – 2 Mar 2749
Saturn retrograde: 12 Feb – 29 Jun
Uranus retrograde: 2 May – 3 Oct
Neptune retrograde: 4 Dec 2747 – 9 May; 6 Dec – 12 May 2749
Pluto retrograde: 3 Apr – 9 Sept
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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