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The Moon on Wednesday, December 27, 2056: Waning Gibbous, 73% lit

Waning · 73.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 08°

Moon age

20.6days

Moon phase on December 27, 2056Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 27 December 2056386,222 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 27, 2056, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 73.5% of its visible face lit, 20.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

73.5%Illumination at noon UTC
20.6 dMoon age
386,222 km239,987 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (8°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 27, 2056 is on Friday, December 22, 2056 at 01:34 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 5, 2057 at 09:49 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around December 27

More about this date

Wednesday, December 27, 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.