Skip to content
The Moon on Sunday, March 1, 2015: Waxing Gibbous, 84% lit

Waxing · 84.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 24°

Moon age

10.5days

Moon phase on March 1, 2015Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 1 March 2015401,254 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 1, 2015, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 84.4% of its visible face lit, 10.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

84.4%Illumination at noon UTC
10.5 dMoon age
401,254 km249,328 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 1, 2015 is on Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 18:06 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 23:47 UTC, 11 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Wednesday, February 25, 201517:14
Full Moon (after)Thursday, March 5, 201518:06

The Moon around March 1

More about this date

Sunday, March 1, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 18, 2015 to the new moon of March 20, 2015, a cycle of 29.41 days.