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The Moon on Saturday, January 4, 2020: Waxing Gibbous, 62% lit

Waxing · 62.4% lit · ♈︎ Aries 27°

Moon age

9.3days

Moon phase on January 4, 2020Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 4 January 2020400,694 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 4, 2020, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 62.4% of its visible face lit, 9.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

62.4%Illumination at noon UTC
9.3 dMoon age
400,694 km248,979 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (28°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 4, 2020 is on Friday, January 10, 2020 at 19:21 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 26, 2019 at 05:13 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, January 3, 202004:46
Full Moon (after)Friday, January 10, 202019:21

The Moon around January 4

More about this date

Saturday, January 4, 2020 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 26, 2019 to the new moon of January 24, 2020, a cycle of 29.69 days.