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The Moon on Thursday, December 31, 2071: Waxing Gibbous, 68% lit

Waxing · 67.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 00°

Moon age

10.0days

Moon phase on December 31, 2071Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 31 December 2071385,872 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 31, 2071, the Moon will be a Waxing Gibbous: 67.7% of its visible face lit, 10.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

67.7%Illumination at noon UTC
10.0 dMoon age
385,872 km239,770 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (1°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 31, 2071 is on Tuesday, January 5, 2072 at 18:13 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 21, 2071 at 11:47 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, December 29, 207117:16
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, January 5, 207218:13

The Moon around December 31

More about this date

Thursday, December 31, 2071 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 21, 2071 to the new moon of January 20, 2072, a cycle of 29.78 days.