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The Moon on Saturday, January 20, 2024: Waxing Gibbous, 74% lit

Waxing · 74.3% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 28°

Moon age

9.0days

Moon phase on January 20, 2024Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 20 January 2024384,181 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 20, 2024, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 74.3% of its visible face lit, 9.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

74.3%Illumination at noon UTC
9.0 dMoon age
384,181 km238,719 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (29°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 20, 2024 is on Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 17:54 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 11:57 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, January 18, 202403:53
Full Moon (after)Thursday, January 25, 202417:54

The Moon around January 20

More about this date

Saturday, January 20, 2024 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 11, 2024 to the new moon of February 9, 2024, a cycle of 29.46 days.