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The Moon on Tuesday, December 21, 1920: Waxing Gibbous, 79% lit

Waxing · 78.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 04°

Moon age

11.1days

Moon phase on December 21, 1920Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 21 December 1920374,220 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 21, 1920, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 78.8% of its visible face lit, 11.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

78.8%Illumination at noon UTC
11.1 dMoon age
374,220 km232,529 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (4°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 1920 is on Saturday, December 25, 1920 at 12:38 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 10, 1920 at 10:04 UTC, 11 days earlier.

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Tuesday, December 21, 1920 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 10, 1920 to the new moon of January 9, 1921, a cycle of 29.81 days.