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The Moon on Monday, December 3, 2040: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 01°

Moon age

28.7days

Moon phase on December 3, 2040Waning Crescent

Monday 3 December 2040370,056 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 3, 2040, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 28.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.7 dMoon age
370,056 km229,942 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (1°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 3, 2040 is on Sunday, November 18, 2040 at 19:06 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 4, 2040 at 07:33 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around December 3

More about this date

Monday, December 3, 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.