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♍︎ Virgo 19°05′♍︎ Virgo 14°56′
- Mercury22 days♒︎ Aquarius 29°42′♒︎ Aquarius 14°42′
- Venus42 days♈︎ Aries 4°18′♓︎ Pisces 18°04′
- Saturn142 days♑︎ Capricorn 5°52′♐︎ Sagittarius 29°16′
- Pluto164 days♒︎ Aquarius 23°57′♒︎ Aquarius 21°41′
- Mercury24 days♋︎ Cancer 0°14′♊︎ Gemini 21°18′
- Jupiter119 days♓︎ Pisces 12°51′♓︎ Pisces 2°57′
- Neptune157 days♉︎ Taurus 1°53′♈︎ Aries 29°04′
- Mercury21 days♎︎ Libra 28°33′♎︎ Libra 12°54′
- Uranus150 days♍︎ Virgo 23°51′♍︎ Virgo 19°42′
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 Jan – 15 Feb; 26 May – 19 Jun; 21 Sept – 12 Oct
Venus retrograde: 14 Feb – 28 Mar
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 23 Jun – 19 Oct
Saturn retrograde: 5 Apr – 25 Aug
Uranus retrograde: 15 Dec 1546 – 13 May; 19 Dec – 17 May 1548
Neptune retrograde: 26 Jul – 31 Dec
Pluto retrograde: 15 May – 26 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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