Skip to content
The Moon on Friday, October 24, 2025: Waxing Crescent, 8% lit

Waxing · 8.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 03°

Moon age

3.0days

Moon phase on October 24, 2025Waxing Crescent

Friday 24 October 2025406,322 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 24, 2025, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 8.0% of its visible face lit, 3.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

8.0%Illumination at noon UTC
3.0 dMoon age
406,322 km252,477 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (4°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 24, 2025 is on Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 13:19 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 12:25 UTC, 3 days earlier.

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

The Moon around October 24

More about this date

Friday, October 24, 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.