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The Moon on Sunday, December 12, 2021: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 64.5% lit · ♈︎ Aries 07°

Moon age

8.2days

Moon phase on December 12, 2021Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 12 December 2021393,975 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 12, 2021, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 64.5% of its visible face lit, 8.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

64.5%Illumination at noon UTC
8.2 dMoon age
393,975 km244,805 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (7°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 12, 2021 is on Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 04:36 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 07:43 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, December 11, 202101:36
Full Moon (after)Sunday, December 19, 202104:36

The Moon around December 12

More about this date

Sunday, December 12, 2021 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 2021 to the new moon of January 2, 2022, a cycle of 29.45 days.