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The Moon on Sunday, January 20, 2019: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 19°

Moon age

14.4days

Moon phase on January 20, 2019Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 20 January 2019359,077 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 20, 2019, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.2% of its visible face lit, 14.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.2%Illumination at noon UTC
14.4 dMoon age
359,077 km223,120 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 20, 2019 is on Monday, January 21, 2019 at 05:16 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 6, 2019 at 01:28 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, January 14, 201906:46
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 21, 201905:16

The Moon around January 20

More about this date

Sunday, January 20, 2019 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 6, 2019 to the new moon of February 4, 2019, a cycle of 29.82 days.