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The Moon on Tuesday, January 23, 2024: Waxing Gibbous, 95% lit

Waxing · 95.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 07°

Moon age

12.0days

Moon phase on January 23, 2024Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 23 January 2024394,788 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 23, 2024, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 95.0% of its visible face lit, 12.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

95.0%Illumination at noon UTC
12.0 dMoon age
394,788 km245,310 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (7°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 23, 2024 is on Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 17:54 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 11:57 UTC, 12 days earlier.

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

The Moon around January 23

More about this date

Tuesday, January 23, 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.