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The Moon on Sunday, August 31, 2081: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 12.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 28°

Moon age

26.4days

Moon phase on August 31, 2081Waning Crescent

Sunday 31 August 2081365,632 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 31, 2081, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 12.0% of its visible face lit, 26.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.0%Illumination at noon UTC
26.4 dMoon age
365,632 km227,193 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (29°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 31, 2081 is on Tuesday, August 19, 2081 at 11:15 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 3, 2081 at 09:01 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 27, 208114:08
New Moon (after)Wednesday, September 3, 208109:01

The Moon around August 31

More about this date

Sunday, August 31, 2081 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 5, 2081 to the new moon of September 3, 2081, a cycle of 29.32 days.