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The Moon on Wednesday, March 27, 2019: Waning Gibbous, 57% lit

Waning · 56.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 28°

Moon age

20.8days

Moon phase on March 27, 2019Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 27 March 2019394,020 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 27, 2019, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 56.8% of its visible face lit, 20.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

56.8%Illumination at noon UTC
20.8 dMoon age
394,020 km244,833 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (29°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 27, 2019 is on Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 01:43 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 5, 2019 at 08:51 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around March 27

More about this date

Wednesday, March 27, 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.