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The Moon on Friday, December 24, 2038: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°

Moon age

27.9days

Moon phase on December 24, 2038Waning Crescent

Friday 24 December 2038361,289 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 24, 2038, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 3.5% of its visible face lit, 27.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.9 dMoon age
361,289 km224,495 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (11°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 24, 2038 is on Saturday, December 11, 2038 at 17:31 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 26, 2038 at 01:02 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, December 19, 203809:29
New Moon (after)Sunday, December 26, 203801:02

The Moon around December 24

More about this date

Friday, December 24, 2038 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 26, 2038 to the new moon of December 26, 2038, a cycle of 29.47 days.