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The Moon on Sunday, December 24, 2056: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 94.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 00°

Moon age

17.6days

Moon phase on December 24, 2056Waning Gibbous

Sunday 24 December 2056396,959 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 24, 2056, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 94.5% of its visible face lit, 17.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

94.5%Illumination at noon UTC
17.6 dMoon age
396,959 km246,659 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (1°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 24, 2056 is on Friday, December 22, 2056 at 01:34 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 5, 2057 at 09:49 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 22, 205601:34
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 29, 205618:22

The Moon around December 24

More about this date

Sunday, December 24, 2056 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 6, 2056 to the new moon of January 5, 2057, a cycle of 29.47 days.