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The Moon on Sunday, March 22, 1931: Waxing Crescent, 9% lit

Waxing · 9.0% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 05°

Moon age

3.2days

Moon phase on March 22, 1931Waxing Crescent

Sunday 22 March 1931399,928 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 22, 1931, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 9.0% of its visible face lit, 3.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

9.0%Illumination at noon UTC
3.2 dMoon age
399,928 km248,504 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (6°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 1931 is on Thursday, April 2, 1931 at 20:05 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 19, 1931 at 07:51 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, March 19, 193107:51
First Quarter (after)Friday, March 27, 193105:04

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Sunday, March 22, 1931 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 19, 1931 to the new moon of April 18, 1931, a cycle of 29.71 days.