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The Moon on Sunday, March 21, 1926: First Quarter, 53% lit

Waxing · 52.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 03°

First Quarter at

05:12UTC

Moon phase on March 21, 1926First Quarter

Sunday 21 March 1926397,857 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 21, 1926, the Moon was a First Quarter: 52.9% of its visible face lit, 7.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

52.9%Illumination at noon UTC
7.4 dMoon age
397,857 km247,217 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (3°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 1926 is on Monday, March 29, 1926 at 10:00 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 14, 1926 at 03:20 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, March 14, 192603:20
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, March 21, 192605:12
Full Moon (after)Monday, March 29, 192610:00

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Sunday, March 21, 1926 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 14, 1926 to the new moon of April 12, 1926, a cycle of 29.40 days.