Skip to content
The Moon on Thursday, August 25, 2022: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 11°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on August 25, 2022Waning Crescent

Thursday 25 August 2022402,377 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 25, 2022, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.5% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
402,377 km250,025 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (11°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 25, 2022 is on Friday, August 12, 2022 at 01:36 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 08:17 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, August 19, 202204:36
New Moon (after)Saturday, August 27, 202208:17

The Moon around August 25

More about this date

Thursday, August 25, 2022 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 28, 2022 to the new moon of August 27, 2022, a cycle of 29.60 days.