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The Moon on Tuesday, March 22, 2016: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.1% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 21°

Moon age

13.4days

Moon phase on March 22, 2016Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 22 March 2016402,958 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 22, 2016, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 13.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
13.4 dMoon age
402,958 km250,387 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (21°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 2016 is on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 12:01 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 01:55 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, March 15, 201617:03
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, March 23, 201612:01

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 9, 2016 to the new moon of April 7, 2016, a cycle of 29.40 days.