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The Moon on Sunday, August 3, 2025: Waxing Gibbous, 68% lit

Waxing · 68.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 02°

Moon age

9.7days

Moon phase on August 3, 2025Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 3 August 2025402,459 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 3, 2025, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 68.4% of its visible face lit, 9.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

68.4%Illumination at noon UTC
9.7 dMoon age
402,459 km250,077 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 3, 2025 is on Saturday, August 9, 2025 at 07:55 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 19:11 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, August 1, 202512:42
Full Moon (after)Saturday, August 9, 202507:55

The Moon around August 3

More about this date

Sunday, August 3, 2025 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 24, 2025 to the new moon of August 23, 2025, a cycle of 29.46 days.