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The Moon on Sunday, June 16, 1996: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 00°

New Moon at

01:36UTC

Moon phase on June 16, 1996New Moon

Sunday 16 June 1996403,063 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 16, 1996, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.4% of its visible face lit, 0.4 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.4%Illumination at noon UTC
0.4 dMoon age
403,063 km250,452 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (0°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 16, 1996 is on Saturday, June 1, 1996 at 20:47 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, June 16, 1996 at 01:36 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, June 8, 199611:06
New Moon (this day)Sunday, June 16, 199601:36
First Quarter (after)Monday, June 24, 199605:23

The Moon around June 16

More about this date

Sunday, June 16, 1996 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 16, 1996 to the new moon of July 15, 1996, a cycle of 29.61 days.