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.
- Saturn135 days♌︎ Leo 29°21′♌︎ Leo 22°28′
- Jupiter123 days♎︎ Libra 17°25′♎︎ Libra 7°30′
- Mercury22 days♓︎ Pisces 8°14′♒︎ Aquarius 23°45′
- Venus42 days♈︎ Aries 15°44′♓︎ Pisces 29°23′
- Pluto159 days♐︎ Sagittarius 12°12′♐︎ Sagittarius 9°29′
- Neptune160 days♒︎ Aquarius 2°34′♑︎ Capricorn 29°47′
- Mercury24 days♋︎ Cancer 10°39′♋︎ Cancer 1°11′
- Uranus153 days♓︎ Pisces 27°54′♓︎ Pisces 23°58′
- Mercury21 days♏︎ Scorpio 6°50′♎︎ Libra 21°00′
- Saturn136 days♍︎ Virgo 12°38′♍︎ Virgo 5°47′
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: 3 Feb – 25 Feb; 5 Jun – 29 Jun; 1 Oct – 21 Oct
Venus retrograde: 26 Feb – 9 Apr
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 22 Jan – 26 May
Saturn retrograde: 1 Dec 1506 – 15 Apr; 14 Dec – 28 Apr 1508
Uranus retrograde: 24 Jun – 24 Nov
Neptune retrograde: 26 Apr – 3 Oct
Pluto retrograde: 6 Mar – 12 Aug
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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