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The Moon on Tuesday, March 31, 2020: Waxing Crescent, 41% lit

Waxing · 40.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 00°

Moon age

7.1days

Moon phase on March 31, 2020Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 31 March 2020389,164 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 31, 2020, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 40.5% of its visible face lit, 7.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

40.5%Illumination at noon UTC
7.1 dMoon age
389,164 km241,815 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (0°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 31, 2020 is on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 02:35 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 09:28 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, March 24, 202009:28
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, April 1, 202010:21

The Moon around March 31

More about this date

Tuesday, March 31, 2020 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 24, 2020 to the new moon of April 23, 2020, a cycle of 29.71 days.