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The Moon on Sunday, December 25, 1988: Waning Gibbous, 94% lit

Waning · 94.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 01°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on December 25, 1988Waning Gibbous

Sunday 25 December 1988392,887 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 25, 1988, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 94.5% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

94.5%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
392,887 km244,129 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (1°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 25, 1988 is on Friday, December 23, 1988 at 05:29 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 7, 1989 at 19:22 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 23, 198805:29
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, December 31, 198804:57

The Moon around December 25

More about this date

Sunday, December 25, 1988 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 1988 to the new moon of January 7, 1989, a cycle of 29.57 days.