Skip to content
The Moon on Thursday, May 13, 1948: Waxing Crescent, 22% lit

Waxing · 22.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 18°

Moon age

4.4days

Moon phase on May 13, 1948Waxing Crescent

Thursday 13 May 1948371,020 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, May 13, 1948, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 22.5% of its visible face lit, 4.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

22.5%Illumination at noon UTC
4.4 dMoon age
371,020 km230,541 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (19°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 13, 1948 is on Sunday, May 23, 1948 at 00:37 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, May 9, 1948 at 02:30 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, May 9, 194802:30
First Quarter (after)Sunday, May 16, 194800:55

The Moon around May 13

More about this date

Thursday, May 13, 1948 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 9, 1948 to the new moon of June 7, 1948, a cycle of 29.43 days.