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The Moon on Wednesday, December 24, 2025: Waxing Crescent, 18% lit

Waxing · 18.0% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 23°

Moon age

4.4days

Moon phase on December 24, 2025Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 24 December 2025390,757 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 24, 2025, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 18.0% of its visible face lit, 4.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

18.0%Illumination at noon UTC
4.4 dMoon age
390,757 km242,805 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (23°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 24, 2025 is on Saturday, January 3, 2026 at 10:03 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 20, 2025 at 01:44 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, December 20, 202501:44
First Quarter (after)Saturday, December 27, 202519:10

The Moon around December 24

More about this date

Wednesday, December 24, 2025 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 20, 2025 to the new moon of January 18, 2026, a cycle of 29.76 days.