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The Moon on Wednesday, August 14, 2024: Waxing Gibbous, 68% lit

Waxing · 68.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 13°

Moon age

10.0days

Moon phase on August 14, 2024Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 14 August 2024388,732 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 14, 2024, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 68.4% of its visible face lit, 10.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

68.4%Illumination at noon UTC
10.0 dMoon age
388,732 km241,547 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (14°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 14, 2024 is on Monday, August 19, 2024 at 18:26 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 4, 2024 at 11:13 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, August 12, 202415:19
Full Moon (after)Monday, August 19, 202418:26

The Moon around August 14

More about this date

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 4, 2024 to the new moon of September 3, 2024, a cycle of 29.61 days.