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The Moon on Wednesday, January 1, 2025: Waxing Crescent, 3% lit

Waxing · 3.0% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 00°

Moon age

1.6days

Moon phase on January 1, 2025Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 1 January 2025380,075 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 1, 2025, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 3.0% of its visible face lit, 1.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

3.0%Illumination at noon UTC
1.6 dMoon age
380,075 km236,168 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (1°)
31.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 2025 is on Monday, January 13, 2025 at 22:27 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 30, 2024 at 22:27 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, December 30, 202422:27
First Quarter (after)Monday, January 6, 202523:56

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Wednesday, January 1, 2025 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 30, 2024 to the new moon of January 29, 2025, a cycle of 29.59 days.