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The Moon on Friday, December 30, 2022: First Quarter, 55% lit

Waxing · 54.9% lit · ♈︎ Aries 14°

First Quarter at

01:21UTC

Moon phase on December 30, 2022First Quarter

Friday 30 December 2022382,129 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 30, 2022, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.9% of its visible face lit, 7.1 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.9%Illumination at noon UTC
7.1 dMoon age
382,129 km237,444 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (14°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 2022 is on Friday, January 6, 2023 at 23:08 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 23, 2022 at 10:17 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, December 23, 202210:17
First Quarter (this day)Friday, December 30, 202201:21
Full Moon (after)Friday, January 6, 202323:08

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Friday, December 30, 2022 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 23, 2022 to the new moon of January 21, 2023, a cycle of 29.44 days.