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The Moon on Tuesday, August 25, 2020: First Quarter, 47% lit

Waxing · 47.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 29°

First Quarter at

17:58UTC

Moon phase on August 25, 2020First Quarter

Tuesday 25 August 2020372,163 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 25, 2020, the Moon was a First Quarter: 47.3% of its visible face lit, 6.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

47.3%Illumination at noon UTC
6.4 dMoon age
372,163 km231,251 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (30°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 25, 2020 is on Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at 05:22 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 02:42 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, August 19, 202002:42
First Quarter (this day)Tuesday, August 25, 202017:58
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, September 2, 202005:22

The Moon around August 25

More about this date

Tuesday, August 25, 2020 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 19, 2020 to the new moon of September 17, 2020, a cycle of 29.35 days.