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The Moon on Tuesday, August 26, 2025: Waxing Crescent, 10% lit

Waxing · 10.5% lit · ♎︎ Libra 11°

Moon age

3.2days

Moon phase on August 26, 2025Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 26 August 2025399,091 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 26, 2025, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 10.5% of its visible face lit, 3.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

10.5%Illumination at noon UTC
3.2 dMoon age
399,091 km247,983 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (11°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 26, 2025 is on Sunday, September 7, 2025 at 18:09 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 06:07 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, August 23, 202506:07
First Quarter (after)Sunday, August 31, 202506:25

The Moon around August 26

More about this date

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 23, 2025 to the new moon of September 21, 2025, a cycle of 29.57 days.