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The Moon on Saturday, March 27, 2021: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 97.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 19°

Moon age

14.1days

Moon phase on March 27, 2021Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 27 March 2021366,640 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, March 27, 2021, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.5% of its visible face lit, 14.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.5%Illumination at noon UTC
14.1 dMoon age
366,640 km227,819 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (19°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 27, 2021 is on Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 18:48 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 10:21 UTC, 14 days earlier.

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

The Moon around March 27

More about this date

Saturday, March 27, 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.