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The Moon on Monday, December 22, 2042: Waxing Gibbous, 77% lit

Waxing · 77.0% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 03°

Moon age

9.9days

Moon phase on December 22, 2042Waxing Gibbous

Monday 22 December 2042366,257 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 22, 2042, the Moon will be a Waxing Gibbous: 77.0% of its visible face lit, 9.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

77.0%Illumination at noon UTC
9.9 dMoon age
366,257 km227,582 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (3°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 2042 is on Friday, December 26, 2042 at 17:43 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 12, 2042 at 14:30 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, December 20, 204200:27
Full Moon (after)Friday, December 26, 204217:43

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Monday, December 22, 2042 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 12, 2042 to the new moon of January 11, 2043, a cycle of 29.68 days.