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The Moon on Sunday, April 30, 2056: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

Moon age

15.5days

Moon phase on April 30, 2056Waning Gibbous

Sunday 30 April 2056357,575 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 30, 2056, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 99.0% of its visible face lit, 15.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.0%Illumination at noon UTC
15.5 dMoon age
357,575 km222,187 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (21°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 30, 2056 is on Saturday, April 29, 2056 at 18:31 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, May 14, 2056 at 16:06 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, April 29, 205618:31
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, May 6, 205613:30

The Moon around April 30

More about this date

Sunday, April 30, 2056 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 14, 2056 to the new moon of May 14, 2056, a cycle of 29.68 days.