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The Moon on Sunday, June 21, 2026: First Quarter, 46% lit

Waxing · 45.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 25°

First Quarter at

21:55UTC

Moon phase on June 21, 2026First Quarter

Sunday 21 June 2026386,054 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 21, 2026, the Moon was a First Quarter: 45.8% of its visible face lit, 6.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

45.8%Illumination at noon UTC
6.4 dMoon age
386,054 km239,883 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (25°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 21, 2026 is on Monday, June 29, 2026 at 23:57 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, June 15, 2026 at 02:54 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, June 15, 202602:54
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, June 21, 202621:55
Full Moon (after)Monday, June 29, 202623:57

The Moon around June 21

More about this date

Sunday, June 21, 2026 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 15, 2026 to the new moon of July 14, 2026, a cycle of 29.28 days.