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The Moon on Sunday, March 8, 2020: Waxing Gibbous, 98% lit

Waxing · 97.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 00°

Moon age

13.9days

Moon phase on March 8, 2020Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 8 March 2020360,159 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 8, 2020, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.5% of its visible face lit, 13.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.5%Illumination at noon UTC
13.9 dMoon age
360,159 km223,792 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (1°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 8, 2020 is on Monday, March 9, 2020 at 17:48 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, February 23, 2020 at 15:32 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, March 2, 202019:58
Full Moon (after)Monday, March 9, 202017:48

The Moon around March 8

More about this date

Sunday, March 8, 2020 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 23, 2020 to the new moon of March 24, 2020, a cycle of 29.75 days.