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The Moon on Tuesday, October 22, 2024: Waning Gibbous, 69% lit

Waning · 68.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 07°

Moon age

19.7days

Moon phase on October 22, 2024Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 22 October 2024380,150 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 22, 2024, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 68.9% of its visible face lit, 19.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

68.9%Illumination at noon UTC
19.7 dMoon age
380,150 km236,214 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (7°)
31.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 22, 2024 is on Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 11:26 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, November 1, 2024 at 12:47 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, October 17, 202411:26
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, October 24, 202408:03

The Moon around October 22

More about this date

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 2, 2024 to the new moon of November 1, 2024, a cycle of 29.75 days.