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The Moon on Tuesday, August 21, 2046: Waning Gibbous, 80% lit

Waning · 79.7% lit · ♈︎ Aries 22°

Moon age

19.1days

Moon phase on August 21, 2046Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 21 August 2046404,829 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 21, 2046, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 79.7% of its visible face lit, 19.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

79.7%Illumination at noon UTC
19.1 dMoon age
404,829 km251,549 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (22°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 2046 is on Thursday, August 16, 2046 at 14:50 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 31, 2046 at 18:25 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, August 16, 204614:50
Last Quarter (after)Friday, August 24, 204618:36

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Tuesday, August 21, 2046 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 2, 2046 to the new moon of August 31, 2046, a cycle of 29.33 days.