Moon Phase for December 16, 2026

Location: United States

Latitude: 37.751

Longitude: -97.822

Time Zone: (CDT), GMT-05:00

Time Zone ID: America/Chicago

Waxing Crescent

Dec 14

Waxing Crescent ↑

Illumination: 29%

Waxing Crescent

Dec 15

Waxing Crescent ↑

Illumination: 38%

First Quarter - 11:43 pm

Dec 16

First Quarter - 11:43 pm ↑

Illumination: 48%

Waxing Gibbous

Dec 17

Waxing Gibbous ↑

Illumination: 58%

Waxing Gibbous

Dec 18

Waxing Gibbous ↑

Illumination: 68%

Moon phase details

for Wednesday, December 16, 2026

• Moon Phase: First Quarter - 11:43 pm ↑

• Illumination: 48%

• Moon Age: 7.22 days

• Moon Angle: 0.51

• Moon Distance: 389,585.311 km

• Moonrise: 12:16 pm

• Sun Angle: 0.54

• Sun Distance: 147,209,312.763 km

• Sunrise: 07:40 am

• Golden Hour Ends: 08:21 am

• Golden Hour Starts: 04:33 pm

• Sunset: 05:14 pm

• Length of day: 09h 34m

December 2026
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07:00 pm

First Quarter - 11:43 pm

42%

08:00 pm

First Quarter - 11:43 pm

45%

09:00 pm

First Quarter - 11:43 pm

47%

10:00 pm

First Quarter - 11:43 pm

49%

11:00 pm

First Quarter - 11:43 pm

49%

Moon phase for December 2026

Last Quarter

Last Quarter

Dec 1

12:10 am

New Moon

New Moon

Dec 8

06:52 pm

First Quarter

First Quarter

Dec 16

11:43 pm

Full Moon

Full Moon

Dec 23

07:29 pm

Last Quarter

Last Quarter

Dec 30

01:00 pm

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