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The Moon on Sunday, January 18, 1931: New Moon, 0% lit

Waning · 0.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 24°

New Moon at

18:36UTC

Moon phase on January 18, 1931New Moon

Sunday 18 January 1931399,757 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 18, 1931, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.3% of its visible face lit, 29.4 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.3%Illumination at noon UTC
29.4 dMoon age
399,757 km248,397 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (24°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 18, 1931 is on Sunday, January 4, 1931 at 13:15 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 18, 1931 at 18:36 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, January 11, 193105:09
New Moon (this day)Sunday, January 18, 193118:36
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, January 27, 193100:06

The Moon around January 18

More about this date

Sunday, January 18, 1931 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 20, 1930 to the new moon of January 18, 1931, a cycle of 29.72 days.