Skip to content
The Moon on Saturday, January 9, 2072: Waning Gibbous, 81% lit

Waning · 80.7% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 11°

Moon age

19.0days

Moon phase on January 9, 2072Waning Gibbous

Saturday 9 January 2072364,757 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 9, 2072, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 80.7% of its visible face lit, 19.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

80.7%Illumination at noon UTC
19.0 dMoon age
364,757 km226,649 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (11°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 9, 2072 is on Tuesday, January 5, 2072 at 18:13 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 20, 2072 at 06:35 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, January 5, 207218:13
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, January 12, 207209:54

The Moon around January 9

More about this date

Saturday, January 9, 2072 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.