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The Moon on Sunday, January 5, 2042: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 04°

Moon age

13.2days

Moon phase on January 5, 2042Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 5 January 2042387,641 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 5, 2042, the Moon will be a Waxing Gibbous: 99.0% of its visible face lit, 13.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.0%Illumination at noon UTC
13.2 dMoon age
387,641 km240,869 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (5°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 5, 2042 is on Monday, January 6, 2042 at 08:54 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 23, 2041 at 08:06 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, December 30, 204103:46
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 6, 204208:54

The Moon around January 5

More about this date

Sunday, January 5, 2042 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 23, 2041 to the new moon of January 21, 2042, a cycle of 29.52 days.