Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Saturday, June 4 11:02 PM
  • First Quarter Sunday, June 12 4:11 AM
  • Full Moon Monday, June 20 7:05 AM Strawberry Moon
  • Last Quarter Monday, June 27 2:21 PM

Also in June

  • Ramadan begins Monday, June 6 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Dragon Boat Festival Thursday, June 9 Chinese calendar
  • Shavuot Sunday, June 12 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: June 1–7, June 30.

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).

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
31 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:47 AM
Set: 4:55 PM
Dark night
2 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:26 AM
Set: 6:07 PM
Dark night
3 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:09 AM
Set: 7:18 PM
Dark night
4 Saturday
New Moon
11:02 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 5:57 AM
Set: 8:27 PM
Dark night
5 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:49 AM
Set: 9:31 PM
Dark night
6 Monday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:47 AM
Set: 10:29 PM
Dark night
7 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:48 AM
Set: 11:20 PM
Dark night
8 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:50 AM
Set: –
9 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Dragon Boat Festival
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:52 AM
Set: 12:03 AM
10 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:52 AM
Set: 12:42 AM
11 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 43% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:51 PM
Set: 1:16 AM
12 Sunday
First Quarter
4:11 AM
Shavuot
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:48 PM
Set: 1:47 AM
13 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:45 PM
Set: 2:17 AM
14 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:41 PM
Set: 2:46 AM
15 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:36 PM
Set: 3:16 AM
16 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:32 PM
Set: 3:47 AM
17 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:28 PM
Set: 4:21 AM
18 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:23 PM
Set: 4:58 AM
19 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:17 PM
Set: 5:40 AM
20 Monday
Full Moon
7:05 AM
Strawberry Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 9:09 PM
Set: 6:27 AM
21 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:57 PM
Set: 7:18 AM
22 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:42 PM
Set: 8:15 AM
23 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:23 PM
Set: 9:14 AM
24 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:17 AM
25 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:02 AM
Set: 11:21 AM
26 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:38 AM
Set: 12:27 PM
27 Monday
Last Quarter
2:21 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:13 AM
Set: 1:34 PM
28 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:48 AM
Set: 2:42 PM
29 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 29% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:25 AM
Set: 3:51 PM
30 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:04 AM
Set: 5:00 PM
Dark night
1 Friday
2 Saturday