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The Moon on Monday, March 22, 2021: Waxing Gibbous, 59% lit

Waxing · 58.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 12°

Moon age

9.1days

Moon phase on March 22, 2021Waxing Gibbous

Monday 22 March 2021394,518 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, March 22, 2021, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 58.8% of its visible face lit, 9.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

58.8%Illumination at noon UTC
9.1 dMoon age
394,518 km245,142 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 2021 is on Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 18:48 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 10:21 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, March 21, 202114:41
Full Moon (after)Sunday, March 28, 202118:48

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Monday, March 22, 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.