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The Moon on Sunday, August 27, 2056: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 94.6% lit · ♈︎ Aries 01°

Moon age

16.2days

Moon phase on August 27, 2056Waning Gibbous

Sunday 27 August 2056395,922 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 27, 2056, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 94.6% of its visible face lit, 16.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

94.6%Illumination at noon UTC
16.2 dMoon age
395,922 km246,015 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (1°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 2056 is on Friday, August 25, 2056 at 06:00 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 9, 2056 at 17:47 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, August 25, 205606:00
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, September 2, 205605:43

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Sunday, August 27, 2056 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 11, 2056 to the new moon of September 9, 2056, a cycle of 29.42 days.