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The Moon on Sunday, January 18, 1981: Waxing Gibbous, 96% lit

Waxing · 95.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 05°

Moon age

12.2days

Moon phase on January 18, 1981Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 18 January 1981373,663 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 18, 1981, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 95.9% of its visible face lit, 12.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

95.9%Illumination at noon UTC
12.2 dMoon age
373,663 km232,183 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (5°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 18, 1981 is on Tuesday, January 20, 1981 at 07:39 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 6, 1981 at 07:24 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, January 13, 198110:10
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, January 20, 198107:39

The Moon around January 18

More about this date

Sunday, January 18, 1981 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 6, 1981 to the new moon of February 4, 1981, a cycle of 29.62 days.