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The Moon on Sunday, December 31, 2045: Waning Crescent, 42% lit

Waning · 41.9% lit · ♎︎ Libra 19°

Moon age

23.0days

Moon phase on December 31, 2045Waning Crescent

Sunday 31 December 2045375,329 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 31, 2045, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 41.9% of its visible face lit, 23.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

41.9%Illumination at noon UTC
23.0 dMoon age
375,329 km233,219 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (20°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 31, 2045 is on Sunday, December 24, 2045 at 00:49 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 7, 2046 at 04:24 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, December 30, 204518:11
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 7, 204604:24

The Moon around December 31

More about this date

Sunday, December 31, 2045 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 8, 2045 to the new moon of January 7, 2046, a cycle of 29.70 days.