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The Moon on Sunday, October 21, 2046: Waning Gibbous, 64% lit

Waning · 64.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 11°

Moon age

21.4days

Moon phase on October 21, 2046Waning Gibbous

Sunday 21 October 2046386,241 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 21, 2046, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 64.1% of its visible face lit, 21.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

64.1%Illumination at noon UTC
21.4 dMoon age
386,241 km239,999 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 21, 2046 is on Sunday, October 14, 2046 at 23:41 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 29, 2046 at 11:17 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, October 14, 204623:41
Last Quarter (after)Monday, October 22, 204620:08

The Moon around October 21

More about this date

Sunday, October 21, 2046 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 30, 2046 to the new moon of October 29, 2046, a cycle of 29.37 days.