Lunar day
Time for Moon to complete one rotation on its axis / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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See also: Synodic day
For the tidal lunar day of about 24 hours and 50 minutes, see Tide.
A lunar day is the time it takes for Earth's Moon to complete on its axis one synodic rotation, meaning with respect to the Sun. The lunar day is therefore the time of a full lunar day-night cycle. Due to tidal locking, this equals the time that the Moon takes to complete one synodic orbit around Earth, a synodic lunar month, returning to the same lunar phase. The synodic period is about 29+1⁄2 Earth days, which is about 2.2 days longer than its sidereal period.