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The Moon on Sunday, December 21, 2059: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 93.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 29°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on December 21, 2059Waning Gibbous

Sunday 21 December 2059388,892 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 21, 2059, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 93.4% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.4%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
388,892 km241,646 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (29°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 2059 is on Friday, December 19, 2059 at 02:12 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 3, 2060 at 16:40 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 19, 205902:12
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 26, 205921:17

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Sunday, December 21, 2059 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 5, 2059 to the new moon of January 3, 2060, a cycle of 29.62 days.