Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Wednesday, December 7 4:04 AM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, December 13 7:07 PM Cold MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, December 20 8:57 PM
  • New Moon Thursday, December 29 1:54 AM

Also in December

  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 100% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Sunday, December 25 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 1–2, December 24–31.

Times are in Columbus time (America/New York), and moonrise and moonset are for Columbus. Each day's Moon is turned as it is in the sky of Columbus when it is highest that night (near the New Moon, that day).

November December 2016 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:07 AM
Set: 7:12 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:55 AM
Set: 8:04 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:39 AM
Set: 8:59 PM
4 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:20 AM
Set: 9:58 PM
5 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:59 AM
Set: 10:59 PM
6 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 43% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:34 PM
Set: –
7 Wednesday
First Quarter
4:04 AM
Visible: 54% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:09 PM
Set: 12:02 AM
8 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:43 PM
Set: 1:07 AM
9 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:19 PM
Set: 2:14 AM
10 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:57 PM
Set: 3:24 AM
11 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:39 PM
Set: 4:35 AM
12 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:27 PM
Set: 5:48 AM
13 Tuesday
Full Moon
7:07 PM
Cold Moon
Supermoon
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:20 PM
Set: 6:59 AM
14 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:19 PM
Set: 8:06 AM
15 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:23 PM
Set: 9:06 AM
16 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:28 PM
Set: 9:58 AM
17 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:33 PM
Set: 10:44 AM
18 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:36 PM
Set: 11:23 AM
19 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 64% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:37 PM
Set: 11:58 AM
20 Tuesday
Last Quarter
8:57 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:29 PM
21 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:36 AM
Set: 12:59 PM
22 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:33 AM
Set: 1:29 PM
23 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:30 AM
Set: 1:58 PM
24 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:25 AM
Set: 2:30 PM
Dark night
25 Sunday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:21 AM
Set: 3:04 PM
Dark night
26 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:16 AM
Set: 3:41 PM
Dark night
27 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:10 AM
Set: 4:22 PM
Dark night
28 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:02 AM
Set: 5:08 PM
Dark night
29 Thursday
New Moon
1:54 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:52 AM
Set: 5:59 PM
Dark night
30 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:39 AM
Set: 6:54 PM
Dark night
31 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:22 AM
Set: 7:52 PM
Dark night