Skip to content
The Moon on Tuesday, August 18, 1914: Waning Crescent, 11% lit

Waning · 11.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 16°

Moon age

26.4days

Moon phase on August 18, 1914Waning Crescent

Tuesday 18 August 1914383,991 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 18, 1914, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.1% of its visible face lit, 26.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.1%Illumination at noon UTC
26.4 dMoon age
383,991 km238,601 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (16°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 18, 1914 is on Thursday, August 6, 1914 at 00:40 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 21, 1914 at 12:26 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, August 14, 191400:56
New Moon (after)Friday, August 21, 191412:26

The Moon around August 18

More about this date

Tuesday, August 18, 1914 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 23, 1914 to the new moon of August 21, 1914, a cycle of 29.41 days.