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The Moon on Friday, December 18, 2043: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 93.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 26°

Moon age

16.9days

Moon phase on December 18, 2043Waning Gibbous

Friday 18 December 2043363,147 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 18, 2043, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 93.0% of its visible face lit, 16.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.0%Illumination at noon UTC
16.9 dMoon age
363,147 km225,649 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (27°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 18, 2043 is on Wednesday, December 16, 2043 at 08:02 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 31, 2043 at 09:48 UTC, 13 days later.

The Moon around December 18

More about this date

Friday, December 18, 2043 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 1, 2043 to the new moon of December 31, 2043, a cycle of 29.80 days.