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The Moon on Saturday, April 5, 2025: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 54.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 20°

First Quarter at

02:15UTC

Moon phase on April 5, 2025First Quarter

Saturday 5 April 2025383,063 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, April 5, 2025, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.5% of its visible face lit, 7.0 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.5%Illumination at noon UTC
7.0 dMoon age
383,063 km238,024 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (21°)
31.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 5, 2025 is on Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 00:22 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 10:58 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, March 29, 202510:58
First Quarter (this day)Saturday, April 5, 202502:15
Full Moon (after)Sunday, April 13, 202500:22

The Moon around April 5

More about this date

Saturday, April 5, 2025 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 29, 2025 to the new moon of April 27, 2025, a cycle of 29.36 days.