Skip to content
The Moon on Saturday, December 12, 1931: Waxing Crescent, 11% lit

Waxing · 11.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 28°

Moon age

3.1days

Moon phase on December 12, 1931Waxing Crescent

Saturday 12 December 1931384,251 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 12, 1931, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 11.5% of its visible face lit, 3.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

11.5%Illumination at noon UTC
3.1 dMoon age
384,251 km238,762 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (29°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 12, 1931 is on Thursday, December 24, 1931 at 23:24 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 9, 1931 at 10:16 UTC, 3 days earlier.

The Moon around December 12

More about this date

Saturday, December 12, 1931 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 1931 to the new moon of January 7, 1932, a cycle of 29.55 days.