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The Moon on Tuesday, January 21, 2031: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 07°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on January 21, 2031Waning Crescent

Tuesday 21 January 2031359,770 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 21, 2031, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 4.3% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
359,770 km223,551 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (8°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 2031 is on Wednesday, January 8, 2031 at 18:26 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 23, 2031 at 04:31 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 16, 203112:47
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 23, 203104:31

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Tuesday, January 21, 2031 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 24, 2030 to the new moon of January 23, 2031, a cycle of 29.46 days.