Skip to content
The Moon on Saturday, December 21, 1918: Waning Gibbous, 84% lit

Waning · 84.1% lit · ♌︎ Leo 15°

Moon age

17.9days

Moon phase on December 21, 1918Waning Gibbous

Saturday 21 December 1918386,466 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 21, 1918, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 84.1% of its visible face lit, 17.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

84.1%Illumination at noon UTC
17.9 dMoon age
386,466 km240,139 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (16°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 1918 is on Tuesday, December 17, 1918 at 19:17 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 2, 1919 at 08:24 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, December 17, 191819:17
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, December 25, 191806:30

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Saturday, December 21, 1918 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 3, 1918 to the new moon of January 2, 1919, a cycle of 29.71 days.