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The Moon on Friday, July 5, 1940: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 13°

New Moon at

11:28UTC

Moon phase on July 5, 1940New Moon

Friday 5 July 1940376,503 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, July 5, 1940, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.2% of its visible face lit, 29.5 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.2%Illumination at noon UTC
29.5 dMoon age
376,503 km233,948 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (14°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 5, 1940 is on Friday, July 19, 1940 at 09:55 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, July 5, 1940 at 11:28 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, June 27, 194018:13
New Moon (this day)Friday, July 5, 194011:28
First Quarter (after)Friday, July 12, 194006:35

The Moon around July 5

More about this date

Friday, July 5, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 5, 1940 to the new moon of August 3, 1940, a cycle of 29.36 days.