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The Moon on Sunday, March 31, 1963: Waxing Crescent, 43% lit

Waxing · 43.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 02°

Moon age

6.0days

Moon phase on March 31, 1963Waxing Crescent

Sunday 31 March 1963376,978 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 31, 1963, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 43.2% of its visible face lit, 6.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

43.2%Illumination at noon UTC
6.0 dMoon age
376,978 km234,243 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (2°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 31, 1963 is on Tuesday, April 9, 1963 at 00:57 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 25, 1963 at 12:10 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, March 25, 196312:10
First Quarter (after)Monday, April 1, 196303:15

The Moon around March 31

More about this date

Sunday, March 31, 1963 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 25, 1963 to the new moon of April 23, 1963, a cycle of 29.35 days.