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The Moon on Tuesday, January 9, 2024: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on January 9, 2024Waning Crescent

Tuesday 9 January 2024373,694 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 9, 2024, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.5% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
373,694 km232,203 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (22°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 9, 2024 is on Wednesday, December 27, 2023 at 00:33 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 11:57 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 4, 202403:31
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 11, 202411:57

The Moon around January 9

More about this date

Tuesday, January 9, 2024 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 12, 2023 to the new moon of January 11, 2024, a cycle of 29.52 days.