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The Moon on Sunday, March 22, 2048: First Quarter, 49% lit

Waxing · 48.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 00°

First Quarter at

16:04UTC

Moon phase on March 22, 2048First Quarter

Sunday 22 March 2048402,383 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 22, 2048, the Moon will be a First Quarter: 48.5% of its visible face lit, 7.9 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happens at .

48.5%Illumination at noon UTC
7.9 dMoon age
402,383 km250,029 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (1°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 2048 is on Monday, March 30, 2048 at 02:04 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 14, 2048 at 14:28 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, March 14, 204814:28
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, March 22, 204816:04
Full Moon (after)Monday, March 30, 204802:04

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Sunday, March 22, 2048 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 14, 2048 to the new moon of April 13, 2048, a cycle of 29.62 days.