Skip to content
The Moon on Sunday, September 18, 1938: Waning Crescent, 35% lit

Waning · 34.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 12°

Moon age

24.0days

Moon phase on September 18, 1938Waning Crescent

Sunday 18 September 1938368,412 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 18, 1938, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 34.7% of its visible face lit, 24.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

34.7%Illumination at noon UTC
24.0 dMoon age
368,412 km228,920 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (13°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 18, 1938 is on Friday, September 9, 1938 at 20:08 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 23, 1938 at 20:34 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, September 17, 193803:12
New Moon (after)Friday, September 23, 193820:34

The Moon around September 18

More about this date

Sunday, September 18, 1938 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 25, 1938 to the new moon of September 23, 1938, a cycle of 29.39 days.