Today is Tuesday, the 25th of August of 2026,
August 25 is the 237th day of the year
128 days remain until the end of the year.
Sunrise at 6:34:16 am
and sunset will be at 7:48:01 pm.
We will have 13 hours and 13 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:11:08 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 65.8°F.
The first low tide was at 4:04 am at zero feet
The first high tide will be at 10:57 am at 4.85 feet
The next low tide at 3:53 pm at 2.83 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach will be at 9:32 pm at 6.09 feet
The Moon is currently 93% visible
It is a Waxing Gibbous moon
We'll have a Full Moon and a Partial Lunar Eclipse in 2 days Thursday the 27th of August of 2026 at 9:18 pm
Today is....
Instant Ramen Day in Japan
Kiss and Make Up Day
National Banana Split Day
National Park Service Founders Day
National Second-hand Wardrobe Day
Also known as National Secondhand Wardrobe Day
National Whiskey Sour Day
Touch-A-Heart Tuesday
Today is also....
Day of Songun in North Korea
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uruguay from Brazil in 1825.
Soldier's Day in Brazil
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with....
1530 – Ivan the Terrible, Russian ruler (died 1584)
1796 – James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder (died 1876)
1836 – Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (died 1902)
1909 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (died 1993)
1911 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (died 2013)
1912 – Erich Honecker, German politician (died 1994)
1913 – Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (died 1973)
1916 – Van Johnson, American actor (died 2008)
1917 – Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer (died 2008)
1918 – Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1990)
1919 – George Wallace, American lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (died 1998)
1921 – Monty Hall, Canadian television personality and game show host (died 2017)
1927 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player and golfer (died 2003)
1930 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer (died 2020)
1931 – Regis Philbin, American actor and television host (died 2020)
1933 – Wayne Shorter, American saxophonist and composer (died 2023)
1938 – Frederick Forsyth, English journalist and author (died 2025)
1946 – Rollie Fingers, American baseball player
1948 – Ledward Kaapana, American singer and guitarist
1949 – Martin Amis, British novelist (died 2023)
1954 – Elvis Costello, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1958 – Tim Burton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1964 – Blair Underwood, American actor
1966 – Terminator X, American hip-hop DJ
1967 – Jeff Tweedy, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1968 – Rachael Ray, American chef, author, and television host
1970 – Claudia Schiffer, German model and fashion designer
....and on this day in history....
1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1835 – The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.
1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.
1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
1958 – The world's first publicly marketed instant noodles, Chikin Ramen, are introduced by Taiwanese-Japanese businessman Momofuku Ando.
1960 – The Games of the XVII Olympiad commence in Rome, Italy.
1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the last planet in the Solar System at the time, due to Pluto being within Neptune's orbit from 1979 to 1999.
1991 – Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
2003 – NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida.
2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the first man-made object to do so.
