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The Moon on Sunday, August 31, 2053: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 95.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 03°

Moon age

17.5days

Moon phase on August 31, 2053Waning Gibbous

Sunday 31 August 2053389,918 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 31, 2053, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 95.3% of its visible face lit, 17.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.3%Illumination at noon UTC
17.5 dMoon age
389,918 km242,284 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (4°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 31, 2053 is on Friday, August 29, 2053 at 07:53 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 12, 2053 at 09:36 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, August 29, 205307:53
Last Quarter (after)Friday, September 5, 205317:05

The Moon around August 31

More about this date

Sunday, August 31, 2053 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 14, 2053 to the new moon of September 12, 2053, a cycle of 29.37 days.