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The Moon on Sunday, December 2, 2040: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 17°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on December 2, 2040Waning Crescent

Sunday 2 December 2040374,781 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 2, 2040, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 4.3% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
374,781 km232,878 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (17°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 2, 2040 is on Sunday, November 18, 2040 at 19:06 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 4, 2040 at 07:33 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, November 26, 204021:07
New Moon (after)Tuesday, December 4, 204007:33

The Moon around December 2

More about this date

Sunday, December 2, 2040 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 4, 2040 to the new moon of December 4, 2040, a cycle of 29.53 days.