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The Moon on Friday, January 5, 2085: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 74.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 15°

Moon age

9.1days

Moon phase on January 5, 2085Waxing Gibbous

Friday 5 January 2085392,374 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 5, 2085, the Moon will be a Waxing Gibbous: 74.7% of its visible face lit, 9.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

74.7%Illumination at noon UTC
9.1 dMoon age
392,374 km243,810 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (15°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 5, 2085 is on Wednesday, January 10, 2085 at 22:42 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 27, 2084 at 09:07 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Wednesday, January 3, 208500:47
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, January 10, 208522:42

The Moon around January 5

More about this date

Friday, January 5, 2085 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 27, 2084 to the new moon of January 25, 2085, a cycle of 29.46 days.