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The Moon on Sunday, January 30, 2022: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.4% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 16°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on January 30, 2022Waning Crescent

Sunday 30 January 2022362,274 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 30, 2022, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.4% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
362,274 km225,107 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (17°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 30, 2022 is on Monday, January 17, 2022 at 23:49 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 05:46 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, January 25, 202213:41
New Moon (after)Tuesday, February 1, 202205:46

The Moon around January 30

More about this date

Sunday, January 30, 2022 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 2, 2022 to the new moon of February 1, 2022, a cycle of 29.47 days.