--- title: "What is the Temperature of Moon at Night?" description: "What is the Temperature of Moon at Night?" author: "Lily Chitlangiya" published: 2021-11-19 updated: 2024-01-02 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94156/what-is-the-temperature-of-moon-at-night category: "space technology" tags: ["space science", "space programs"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # What is the Temperature of Moon at Night? What is the [Temperature](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/300335/what-is-normal-body-temperature) of Moon at Night? \ ## Answers ### Answer by Sanjay Goenka The **temperature of the Moon at night is very cold**, the lunar surface of the [**Moon is about -173 degrees Celcius.**](https://www.space.com/14725-moon-temperature-lunar-days-night.html) \ \ ![What is the Temperature of Moon at Night?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/2c372e83-e8a6-44b4-a609-9a2e717e1fee/images/f7ed7ded-a927-4508-81c0-be69eda62668.jpeg)\ \ Whereas according to the region **it varies from place to place,** the average temperature on the moon (at **[the equator and mid-latitude](https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/168-What-is-the-temperature-on-the-Moon-#:~:text=The%20average%20temperature%20on%20the,degrees%20Celsius)%20during%20the%20day.)**[)](https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/168-What-is-the-temperature-on-the-Moon-#:~:text=The%20average%20temperature%20on%20the,degrees%20Celsius)%20during%20the%20day.) **[varies from -298 degrees Fahrenheit](https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/168-What-is-the-temperature-on-the-Moon-#:~:text=The%20average%20temperature%20on%20the,degrees%20Celsius)%20during%20the%20day.)** [(](https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/168-What-is-the-temperature-on-the-Moon-#:~:text=The%20average%20temperature%20on%20the,degrees%20Celsius)%20during%20the%20day.)**[-183 degree Celcius](https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/168-What-is-the-temperature-on-the-Moon-#:~:text=The%20average%20temperature%20on%20the,degrees%20Celsius)%20during%20the%20day.)**) at night. In the daytime it is different from **night time is 224 degrees Fahrenheit** (**106 degrees Celcius**). The reason behind this variation from day to night is just **because of the absence of the atmosphere in it**. For further detail we need to search about the moon, here is the detail about the moon. \ **Temperature of Moon** We have seen the temperature of the Moon during Day and night time. Yes of course the reason behind this is the absence of the atmosphere. The moon does not have an **‘atmosphere’** so that it can’t **hold the heat of the sun at night** and is also **not able to block the sun rays during daytime**. But, in the case of the earth, it has the atmosphere and air particles in it so that it is able to block the harmful sun rays and also it can observe the sunrays so that it could not feel the extreme cold. \ **Explanation of the term atmosphere** **The American Meteorological society glossary of meteorology**, which studies meteorology of the different planets and tells the nature of that planet, similarly it had explained the definition of the term **[‘Atmosphere](https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2019/07/18/does-our-moon-have-weather/?sh=3f684ad345b2)**[’](https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2019/07/18/does-our-moon-have-weather/?sh=3f684ad345b2) which is as says **[“a gaseous envelope gravitationally bound to a celestial body](https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2019/07/18/does-our-moon-have-weather/?sh=3f684ad345b2)”** where the celestial body means the body of the space like planets, earth, star, etc. the atmosphere of the earth is divided into many layers and we are living in the [troposphere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troposphere) which is consuming about **10 Km** distance of the earth. \ ### Answer by user Daytime temperatures near the lunar equator reach a boiling 250 degrees Fahrenheit (120° C, 400 K), while nighttime temperatures get to a chilly -208 degrees Fahrenheit (-130° C, 140 K). The Moon’s poles are even colder. Diviner even found a place in the floor of the Moon’s Hermite Crater that was detected to be -410 degrees Fahrenheit (-250° C, 25 K), making it the coldest temperature measured anywhere in the solar system! Extremely cold regions similar to the one in Hermite Crater happy wheels were found at the bottoms of several permanently shadowed craters at the lunar south pole and were measured in the depths of winter night. --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94156/what-is-the-temperature-of-moon-at-night Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.