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The Moon on Friday, March 27, 1931: First Quarter, 53% lit

Waxing · 53.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 09°

First Quarter at

05:04UTC

Moon phase on March 27, 1931First Quarter

Friday 27 March 1931378,232 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 27, 1931, the Moon was a First Quarter: 53.3% of its visible face lit, 8.2 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

53.3%Illumination at noon UTC
8.2 dMoon age
378,232 km235,023 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (9°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 27, 1931 is on Thursday, April 2, 1931 at 20:05 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 19, 1931 at 07:51 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, March 19, 193107:51
First Quarter (this day)Friday, March 27, 193105:04
Full Moon (after)Thursday, April 2, 193120:05

The Moon around March 27

More about this date

Friday, March 27, 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.