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The Moon on Sunday, January 1, 2023: Waxing Gibbous, 74% lit

Waxing · 74.5% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 09°

Moon age

9.1days

Moon phase on January 1, 2023Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 1 January 2023391,746 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 1, 2023, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 74.5% of its visible face lit, 9.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

74.5%Illumination at noon UTC
9.1 dMoon age
391,746 km243,420 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (10°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 2023 is on Friday, January 6, 2023 at 23:08 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 23, 2022 at 10:17 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, December 30, 202201:21
Full Moon (after)Friday, January 6, 202323:08

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Sunday, January 1, 2023 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.