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The Moon on Tuesday, December 21, 2049: Waning Crescent, 13% lit

Waning · 13.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 17°

Moon age

26.3days

Moon phase on December 21, 2049Waning Crescent

Tuesday 21 December 2049378,402 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 21, 2049, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 13.4% of its visible face lit, 26.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

13.4%Illumination at noon UTC
26.3 dMoon age
378,402 km235,128 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (17°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 2049 is on Thursday, December 9, 2049 at 07:28 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 24, 2049 at 17:52 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 17, 204911:15
New Moon (after)Friday, December 24, 204917:52

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Tuesday, December 21, 2049 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 25, 2049 to the new moon of December 24, 2049, a cycle of 29.51 days.