Skip to content
The Moon on Sunday, March 29, 1953: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 98.9% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 27°

Moon age

14.0days

Moon phase on March 29, 1953Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 29 March 1953404,888 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 29, 1953, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 98.9% of its visible face lit, 14.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

98.9%Illumination at noon UTC
14.0 dMoon age
404,888 km251,586 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (27°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 29, 1953 is on Monday, March 30, 1953 at 12:55 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 15, 1953 at 11:05 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, March 22, 195308:11
Full Moon (after)Monday, March 30, 195312:55

The Moon around March 29

More about this date

Sunday, March 29, 1953 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 15, 1953 to the new moon of April 13, 1953, a cycle of 29.38 days.