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The Moon on Tuesday, May 18, 2049: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 98.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°

Moon age

16.5days

Moon phase on May 18, 2049Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 18 May 2049364,650 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, May 18, 2049, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 98.5% of its visible face lit, 16.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.5%Illumination at noon UTC
16.5 dMoon age
364,650 km226,583 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (12°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 18, 2049 is on Monday, May 17, 2049 at 11:14 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, May 31, 2049 at 14:00 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, May 17, 204911:14
Last Quarter (after)Monday, May 24, 204902:54

The Moon around May 18

More about this date

Tuesday, May 18, 2049 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 2, 2049 to the new moon of May 31, 2049, a cycle of 29.58 days.