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The Moon on Sunday, April 5, 2020: Waxing Gibbous, 90% lit

Waxing · 89.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 09°

Moon age

12.1days

Moon phase on April 5, 2020Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 5 April 2020361,666 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 5, 2020, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 89.8% of its visible face lit, 12.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

89.8%Illumination at noon UTC
12.1 dMoon age
361,666 km224,729 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (9°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 5, 2020 is on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 02:35 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 09:28 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Wednesday, April 1, 202010:21
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, April 8, 202002:35

The Moon around April 5

More about this date

Sunday, April 5, 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.