Skip to content
The Moon on Saturday, January 5, 2036: Waxing Crescent, 38% lit

Waxing · 37.6% lit · ♈︎ Aries 00°

Moon age

6.9days

Moon phase on January 5, 2036Waxing Crescent

Saturday 5 January 2036392,978 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 5, 2036, the Moon will be a Waxing Crescent: 37.6% of its visible face lit, 6.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

37.6%Illumination at noon UTC
6.9 dMoon age
392,978 km244,185 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (0°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 5, 2036 is on Sunday, January 13, 2036 at 11:16 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 29, 2035 at 14:31 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, December 29, 203514:31
First Quarter (after)Sunday, January 6, 203617:48

The Moon around January 5

More about this date

Saturday, January 5, 2036 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 29, 2035 to the new moon of January 28, 2036, a cycle of 29.82 days.