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The Moon on Friday, August 21, 2071: Waning Crescent, 21% lit

Waning · 20.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 04°

Moon age

25.5days

Moon phase on August 21, 2071Waning Crescent

Friday 21 August 2071364,934 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 21, 2071, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 20.6% of its visible face lit, 25.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

20.6%Illumination at noon UTC
25.5 dMoon age
364,934 km226,760 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (5°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 2071 is on Monday, August 10, 2071 at 23:39 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 25, 2071 at 08:16 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, August 18, 207117:57
New Moon (after)Tuesday, August 25, 207108:16

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Friday, August 21, 2071 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 27, 2071 to the new moon of August 25, 2071, a cycle of 29.31 days.