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The Moon on Sunday, March 21, 2021: First Quarter, 49% lit

Waxing · 49.0% lit · ♊︎ Gemini 29°

First Quarter at

14:41UTC

Moon phase on March 21, 2021First Quarter

Sunday 21 March 2021398,913 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 21, 2021, the Moon was a First Quarter: 49.0% of its visible face lit, 8.1 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

49.0%Illumination at noon UTC
8.1 dMoon age
398,913 km247,873 mi from Earth
♊︎ GeminiMoon sign (30°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 2021 is on Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 18:48 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 10:21 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, March 13, 202110:21
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, March 21, 202114:41
Full Moon (after)Sunday, March 28, 202118:48

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Sunday, March 21, 2021 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 13, 2021 to the new moon of April 12, 2021, a cycle of 29.67 days.