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The Moon on Wednesday, July 23, 2025: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 2.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 13°

Moon age

28.1days

Moon phase on July 23, 2025Waning Crescent

Wednesday 23 July 2025371,950 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, July 23, 2025, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.3% of its visible face lit, 28.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.3%Illumination at noon UTC
28.1 dMoon age
371,950 km231,119 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (14°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 23, 2025 is on Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 20:37 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 19:11 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, July 18, 202500:38
New Moon (after)Thursday, July 24, 202519:11

The Moon around July 23

More about this date

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 25, 2025 to the new moon of July 24, 2025, a cycle of 29.36 days.