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.
- Saturn134 days♊︎ Gemini 27°04′♊︎ Gemini 20°05′
- Uranus149 days♋︎ Cancer 8°44′♋︎ Cancer 4°38′
- Mercury23 days♈︎ Aries 0°35′♓︎ Pisces 17°41′
- Jupiter123 days♏︎ Scorpio 26°32′♏︎ Scorpio 16°40′
- Pluto163 days♒︎ Aquarius 1°19′♑︎ Capricorn 28°54′
- Neptune158 days♓︎ Pisces 28°12′♓︎ Pisces 25°23′
- Mercury24 days♌︎ Leo 6°20′♋︎ Cancer 25°07′
- Venus42 days♏︎ Scorpio 6°38′♎︎ Libra 21°06′
- Uranus149 days♋︎ Cancer 13°16′♋︎ Cancer 9°09′
- Saturn134 days♋︎ Cancer 11°19′♋︎ Cancer 4°20′
- Mercury20 days♏︎ Scorpio 27°54′♏︎ Scorpio 11°46′
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: 25 Feb – 19 Mar; 29 Jun – 23 Jul; 22 Oct – 11 Nov
Venus retrograde: 21 Sept – 2 Nov
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 3 Mar – 4 Jul
Saturn retrograde: 30 Sept 1531 – 10 Feb; 13 Oct – 24 Feb 1533
Uranus retrograde: 5 Oct 1531 – 3 Mar; 9 Oct – 7 Mar 1533
Neptune retrograde: 21 Jun – 26 Nov
Pluto retrograde: 22 Apr – 2 Oct
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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