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The Moon on Sunday, April 1, 2001: First Quarter, 51% lit

Waxing · 50.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 12°

First Quarter at

10:49UTC

Moon phase on April 1, 2001First Quarter

Sunday 1 April 2001372,131 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 1, 2001, the Moon was a First Quarter: 50.7% of its visible face lit, 7.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

50.7%Illumination at noon UTC
7.4 dMoon age
372,131 km231,231 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 1, 2001 is on Sunday, April 8, 2001 at 03:22 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 25, 2001 at 01:21 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, March 25, 200101:21
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, April 1, 200110:49
Full Moon (after)Sunday, April 8, 200103:22

The Moon around April 1

More about this date

Sunday, April 1, 2001 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 25, 2001 to the new moon of April 23, 2001, a cycle of 29.59 days.