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The Moon on Saturday, August 30, 2025: Waxing Crescent, 43% lit

Waxing · 42.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

Moon age

7.2days

Moon phase on August 30, 2025Waxing Crescent

Saturday 30 August 2025404,078 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 30, 2025, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 42.8% of its visible face lit, 7.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

42.8%Illumination at noon UTC
7.2 dMoon age
404,078 km251,082 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (29°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 30, 2025 is on Sunday, September 7, 2025 at 18:09 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 06:07 UTC, 7 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 30

More about this date

Saturday, August 30, 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.