Mars retrograde 2024

1 period, 25 days inside the year — 6.8% of 2024. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

65 days · retreats 17.88° · crosses the year boundary

7 December → 9 February 2025 in Leo

Stations retrograde 7 Dec 2024, 00:24 UTC at 5.83° Leo

Stations direct 9 Feb 2025, 23:59 UTC at 17.95° Cancer

Shadow opens 7 Oct 2024 (60 days before)

Shadow closes 2 May 2025 (81 days after)

Full window including shadows 207 days

Read against Leo, and see that sign’s horoscope for the period.

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Mars retrogrades either side of 2024

2023 Ended 12 January 2023 after 52 days, moving back 13.88° through the zodiac.

2025 Begins 7 December 2024 and runs 79 days.

Gap across 2024

1.9 years between the two — long enough for a whole calendar year to fall inside it with nothing to report.

Both dates are computed from the planet’s apparent motion, not taken from a table. A retrograde begins the moment its daily movement against the stars turns negative, and that moment is findable to the hour.

← 2023 Mars retrograde in 2023. All Mars retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 2025 → Mars retrograde in 2025.