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The Moon on Wednesday, July 4, 2001: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 98.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 29°

Moon age

13.0days

Moon phase on July 4, 2001Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 4 July 2001396,662 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, July 4, 2001, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 98.8% of its visible face lit, 13.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

98.8%Illumination at noon UTC
13.0 dMoon age
396,662 km246,475 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (30°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 4, 2001 is on Thursday, July 5, 2001 at 15:04 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, June 21, 2001 at 11:58 UTC, 13 days earlier.

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

The Moon around July 4

More about this date

Wednesday, July 4, 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.