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The Moon on Tuesday, December 22, 2048: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 25°

Moon age

16.9days

Moon phase on December 22, 2048Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 22 December 2048405,625 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 22, 2048, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 95.6% of its visible face lit, 16.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.6%Illumination at noon UTC
16.9 dMoon age
405,625 km252,044 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (25°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 2048 is on Sunday, December 20, 2048 at 06:39 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 4, 2049 at 02:24 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, December 20, 204806:39
Last Quarter (after)Monday, December 28, 204808:31

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Tuesday, December 22, 2048 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 5, 2048 to the new moon of January 4, 2049, a cycle of 29.45 days.