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The Moon on Saturday, December 29, 2040: Waning Crescent, 23% lit

Waning · 23.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 11°

Moon age

25.2days

Moon phase on December 29, 2040Waning Crescent

Saturday 29 December 2040380,214 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 29, 2040, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 23.0% of its visible face lit, 25.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.0%Illumination at noon UTC
25.2 dMoon age
380,214 km236,254 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (11°)
31.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 2040 is on Tuesday, December 18, 2040 at 12:16 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 2, 2041 at 19:08 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, December 26, 204017:02
New Moon (after)Wednesday, January 2, 204119:08

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Saturday, December 29, 2040 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 2040 to the new moon of January 2, 2041, a cycle of 29.48 days.