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The Moon on Monday, December 26, 2072: Waning Gibbous, 98% lit

Waning · 98.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 21°

Moon age

16.8days

Moon phase on December 26, 2072Waning Gibbous

Monday 26 December 2072371,914 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 26, 2072, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 98.1% of its visible face lit, 16.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.1%Illumination at noon UTC
16.8 dMoon age
371,914 km231,096 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (21°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 26, 2072 is on Sunday, December 25, 2072 at 07:15 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 8, 2073 at 08:11 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, December 25, 207207:15
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, January 1, 207303:27

The Moon around December 26

More about this date

Monday, December 26, 2072 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 2072 to the new moon of January 8, 2073, a cycle of 29.63 days.