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The Moon on Sunday, May 18, 2070: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 64.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 14°

Moon age

8.0days

Moon phase on May 18, 2070Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 18 May 2070389,532 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 18, 2070, the Moon will be a Waxing Gibbous: 64.5% of its visible face lit, 8.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

64.5%Illumination at noon UTC
8.0 dMoon age
389,532 km242,044 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (15°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 18, 2070 is on Sunday, May 25, 2070 at 01:38 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, May 10, 2070 at 11:08 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, May 17, 207002:30
Full Moon (after)Sunday, May 25, 207001:38

The Moon around May 18

More about this date

Sunday, May 18, 2070 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 10, 2070 to the new moon of June 8, 2070, a cycle of 29.30 days.