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The Moon on Tuesday, October 28, 2025: Waxing Crescent, 38% lit

Waxing · 38.4% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 21°

Moon age

7.0days

Moon phase on October 28, 2025Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 28 October 2025396,756 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 28, 2025, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 38.4% of its visible face lit, 7.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

38.4%Illumination at noon UTC
7.0 dMoon age
396,756 km246,533 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (22°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 28, 2025 is on Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 13:19 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 12:25 UTC, 7 days earlier.

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

The Moon around October 28

More about this date

Tuesday, October 28, 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.