Lunar day
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 2.2 Earth days longer than its sidereal period.
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