Skip to content
The Moon on Monday, March 23, 2020: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.9% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 23°

Moon age

28.9days

Moon phase on March 23, 2020Waning Crescent

Monday 23 March 2020406,250 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, March 23, 2020, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 28.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.9 dMoon age
406,250 km252,432 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (24°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 23, 2020 is on Monday, March 9, 2020 at 17:48 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 09:28 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, March 16, 202009:34
New Moon (after)Tuesday, March 24, 202009:28

The Moon around March 23

More about this date

Monday, March 23, 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.