Today is Friday, the 3rd of October of 2025
October 3 is the 276th day of the year
89 days remain until the end of the year.
79 days until winter begins
Sunrise is at 7:07:45 am
and sunset will be at 6:48:07 pm.
We will have 11 hours and 40 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 12:57:56 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 66.4°F.
The first low tide will be at 2:30 am at 0.14 feet
The first high tide will be at 9:21 am at 5.04 feet
The next low tide at 2:49 pm at 2.31 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach will be at 8:28 pm at 5.61 feet
The Moon is currently 83.4% visible
It's a Waxing Gibbous
We can call it a Full Moon in 3 days on Monday the 6th of October of 2025 at 8:47 pm
It's a Supermoon, meaning it's closest to the earth this time of year
The October Full Moon has many names
It's called Harvest Moon or the gather moon by members of the Catawba Indian Nation, South Carolina
It's also called The Harvest Month by the Cherokee
It's called the Hunting Moon by speakers of the Mahican Dialect, Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Wisconsin as well as by the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana
It's The Someone Stores Food Moon by the Oneida
The Falling Leaves Moon byt the Ani-shin-aabe-mowin by the Ojibwe
Gä́-noh-do’-k’ah Moon by the Seneca
Today is....
Global Smoothie Day
Kids Music Day
Look at the Leaves Day
Manufacturing Day
Mean Girls Appreciation Day
National Boyfriend Day
National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day
National Caramel Custard Day
National Denim Day
National Diversity Day
National Family TV Show Day
National Soft Taco Day
National Techies Day
National Virus Appreciation Day
Plaidurday
World Smile Day
Today is also....
3 October Festival (Leiden, Netherlands)
German Unity Day as it was on this day in 1990 – The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany
Morazán Day (Honduras)
National Day, celebrates the independence of Iraq from the United Kingdom in 1932.
National Foundation Day or Gaecheonjeol (South Korea)
as it was on this day in 2457 BCE – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day.
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!
You get to share cake and ice cream with....
1894 – Elmer Robinson, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Mayor of San Francisco (died 1982)
1900 – Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (died 1938)
1916 – James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (died 1995)
1924 – Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (died 1993)
1925 – Gore Vidal, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (died 2012)
1936 – Steve Reich, American composer
1938 – Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 1960)
1941 – Chubby Checker, American singer-songwriter
1949 – Lindsey Buckingham, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1951 – Keb' Mo', American blues musician and songwriter
1954 – Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player and sportscaster
1954 – Al Sharpton, American minister, talk show host, and political activist
1954 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1990)
1969 – Gwen Stefani, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
1975 – India Arie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
....and on this day in history....
1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series.
1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
1991 – Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
2024 – Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India
