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The Moon on Sunday, December 11, 2022: Waning Gibbous, 90% lit

Waning · 90.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 25°

Moon age

17.5days

Moon phase on December 11, 2022Waning Gibbous

Sunday 11 December 2022405,731 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 11, 2022, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 90.1% of its visible face lit, 17.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

90.1%Illumination at noon UTC
17.5 dMoon age
405,731 km252,109 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (26°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 11, 2022 is on Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 04:08 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 23, 2022 at 10:17 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, December 8, 202204:08
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 16, 202208:56

The Moon around December 11

More about this date

Sunday, December 11, 2022 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 23, 2022 to the new moon of December 23, 2022, a cycle of 29.47 days.