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The Moon on Sunday, December 25, 1938: Waxing Crescent, 12% lit

Waxing · 12.3% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 13°

Moon age

3.7days

Moon phase on December 25, 1938Waxing Crescent

Sunday 25 December 1938406,060 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 25, 1938, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 12.3% of its visible face lit, 3.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

12.3%Illumination at noon UTC
3.7 dMoon age
406,060 km252,314 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (14°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 25, 1938 is on Thursday, January 5, 1939 at 21:30 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 21, 1938 at 18:07 UTC, 4 days earlier.

The Moon around December 25

More about this date

Sunday, December 25, 1938 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 21, 1938 to the new moon of January 20, 1939, a cycle of 29.81 days.