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The Moon on Sunday, January 12, 2025: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 97.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 04°

Moon age

12.6days

Moon phase on January 12, 2025Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 12 January 2025376,437 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 12, 2025, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.3% of its visible face lit, 12.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.3%Illumination at noon UTC
12.6 dMoon age
376,437 km233,907 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (4°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

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

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, January 6, 202523:56
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 13, 202522:27

The Moon around January 12

More about this date

Sunday, January 12, 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.