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The Moon on Tuesday, July 3, 2001: Waxing Gibbous, 96% lit

Waxing · 95.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 17°

Moon age

12.0days

Moon phase on July 3, 2001Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 3 July 2001393,507 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 3, 2001, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 95.6% of its visible face lit, 12.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

95.6%Illumination at noon UTC
12.0 dMoon age
393,507 km244,514 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (17°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 3, 2001 is on Thursday, July 5, 2001 at 15:04 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, June 21, 2001 at 11:58 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, June 28, 200103:20
Full Moon (after)Thursday, July 5, 200115:04

The Moon around July 3

More about this date

Tuesday, July 3, 2001 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 21, 2001 to the new moon of July 20, 2001, a cycle of 29.32 days.