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The Moon on Sunday, March 24, 2019: Waning Gibbous, 85% lit

Waning · 84.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 19°

Moon age

17.8days

Moon phase on March 24, 2019Waning Gibbous

Sunday 24 March 2019376,421 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 24, 2019, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 84.6% of its visible face lit, 17.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

84.6%Illumination at noon UTC
17.8 dMoon age
376,421 km233,897 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 24, 2019 is on Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 01:43 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 5, 2019 at 08:51 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, March 21, 201901:43
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, March 28, 201904:10

The Moon around March 24

More about this date

Sunday, March 24, 2019 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 6, 2019 to the new moon of April 5, 2019, a cycle of 29.70 days.