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The Moon on Sunday, May 19, 2019: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 05°

Moon age

14.6days

Moon phase on May 19, 2019Waning Gibbous

Sunday 19 May 2019381,305 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 19, 2019, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.5% of its visible face lit, 14.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.5%Illumination at noon UTC
14.6 dMoon age
381,305 km236,932 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (6°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 19, 2019 is on Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 21:11 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 22:46 UTC, 15 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, May 18, 201921:11
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, May 26, 201916:34

The Moon around May 19

More about this date

Sunday, May 19, 2019 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 4, 2019 to the new moon of June 3, 2019, a cycle of 29.47 days.