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The Moon on Tuesday, March 25, 1980: Waxing Gibbous, 70% lit

Waxing · 69.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 27°

Moon age

8.7days

Moon phase on March 25, 1980Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 25 March 1980396,460 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 25, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 69.6% of its visible face lit, 8.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

69.6%Illumination at noon UTC
8.7 dMoon age
396,460 km246,349 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (28°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 25, 1980 is on Monday, March 31, 1980 at 15:14 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 16, 1980 at 18:56 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, March 23, 198012:31
Full Moon (after)Monday, March 31, 198015:14

The Moon around March 25

More about this date

Tuesday, March 25, 1980 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 16, 1980 to the new moon of April 15, 1980, a cycle of 29.37 days.