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The Moon on Sunday, June 28, 2015: Waxing Gibbous, 86% lit

Waxing · 85.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

Moon age

11.9days

Moon phase on June 28, 2015Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 28 June 2015390,945 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 28, 2015, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 85.5% of its visible face lit, 11.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

85.5%Illumination at noon UTC
11.9 dMoon age
390,945 km242,922 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (22°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 28, 2015 is on Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 02:20 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 14:05 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Wednesday, June 24, 201511:03
Full Moon (after)Thursday, July 2, 201502:20

The Moon around June 28

More about this date

Sunday, June 28, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 16, 2015 to the new moon of July 16, 2015, a cycle of 29.47 days.