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The Moon on Thursday, January 1, 1920: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 74.6% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 09°

Moon age

10.0days

Moon phase on January 1, 1920Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 1 January 1920366,898 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 1, 1920, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 74.6% of its visible face lit, 10.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

74.6%Illumination at noon UTC
10.0 dMoon age
366,898 km227,980 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (9°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 1920 is on Monday, January 5, 1920 at 21:05 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 22, 1919 at 10:55 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, December 30, 191905:25
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 5, 192021:05

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Thursday, January 1, 1920 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 22, 1919 to the new moon of January 21, 1920, a cycle of 29.77 days.