Skip to content
The Moon on Saturday, August 31, 1918: Waning Crescent, 23% lit

Waning · 22.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 10°

Moon age

24.6days

Moon phase on August 31, 1918Waning Crescent

Saturday 31 August 1918387,085 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 31, 1918, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 22.8% of its visible face lit, 24.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

22.8%Illumination at noon UTC
24.6 dMoon age
387,085 km240,523 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (10°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 31, 1918 is on Thursday, August 22, 1918 at 05:02 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 5, 1918 at 10:44 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 28, 191819:27
New Moon (after)Thursday, September 5, 191810:44

The Moon around August 31

More about this date

Saturday, August 31, 1918 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 6, 1918 to the new moon of September 5, 1918, a cycle of 29.59 days.