Skip to content
The Moon on Friday, May 22, 2015: Waxing Crescent, 21% lit

Waxing · 20.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 24°

Moon age

4.3days

Moon phase on May 22, 2015Waxing Crescent

Friday 22 May 2015392,599 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, May 22, 2015, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 20.7% of its visible face lit, 4.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

20.7%Illumination at noon UTC
4.3 dMoon age
392,599 km243,949 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (25°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 22, 2015 is on Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 16:19 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, May 18, 2015 at 04:13 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, May 18, 201504:13
First Quarter (after)Monday, May 25, 201517:19

The Moon around May 22

More about this date

Friday, May 22, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 18, 2015 to the new moon of June 16, 2015, a cycle of 29.41 days.