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The Moon on Wednesday, October 22, 2025: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 10°

Moon age

1.0days

Moon phase on October 22, 2025Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 22 October 2025405,618 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, October 22, 2025, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.0% of its visible face lit, 1.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.0%Illumination at noon UTC
1.0 dMoon age
405,618 km252,039 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 22, 2025 is on Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 13:19 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 12:25 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, October 21, 202512:25
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, October 29, 202516:21

The Moon around October 22

More about this date

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 21, 2025 to the new moon of November 20, 2025, a cycle of 29.77 days.