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The Moon on Saturday, October 29, 2022: Waxing Crescent, 20% lit

Waxing · 20.2% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 29°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on October 29, 2022Waxing Crescent

Saturday 29 October 2022368,286 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, October 29, 2022, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 20.2% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

20.2%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
368,286 km228,842 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (29°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 29, 2022 is on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 11:02 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 10:49 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, October 25, 202210:49
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, November 1, 202206:37

The Moon around October 29

More about this date

Saturday, October 29, 2022 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 25, 2022 to the new moon of November 23, 2022, a cycle of 29.51 days.