Skip to content
The Moon on Wednesday, December 4, 1974: Waning Gibbous, 72% lit

Waning · 71.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 16°

Moon age

20.5days

Moon phase on December 4, 1974Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 4 December 1974368,090 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 4, 1974, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 71.5% of its visible face lit, 20.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

71.5%Illumination at noon UTC
20.5 dMoon age
368,090 km228,720 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (16°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 4, 1974 is on Friday, November 29, 1974 at 15:10 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 13, 1974 at 16:25 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, November 29, 197415:10
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 6, 197410:10

The Moon around December 4

More about this date

Wednesday, December 4, 1974 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 14, 1974 to the new moon of December 13, 1974, a cycle of 29.65 days.