Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Last Quarter Tuesday, March 1 6:13 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, March 8 8:56 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, March 15 1:04 PM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, March 23 8:02 AM Worm Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, March 31 11:19 AM

Also in March

  • Total solar eclipse Tuesday, March 8, 8:57 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Wednesday, March 23, 7:47 AM partly visible from Columbus
  • Holi Thursday, March 24 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Purim Thursday, March 24 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, March 27 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: March 3–10.

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).

February March 2016 April
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
1 Tuesday
Last Quarter
6:13 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:58 AM
Set: 11:24 AM
2 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:52 AM
Set: 12:08 PM
3 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:45 AM
Set: 12:57 PM
Dark night
4 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:37 AM
Set: 1:53 PM
Dark night
5 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:25 AM
Set: 2:54 PM
Dark night
6 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:11 AM
Set: 4:00 PM
Dark night
7 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:54 AM
Set: 5:09 PM
Dark night
8 Tuesday
New Moon
8:56 PM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:34 AM
Set: 6:20 PM
Dark night
9 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:13 AM
Set: 7:32 PM
Dark night
10 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:52 AM
Set: 8:45 PM
Dark night
11 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:31 AM
Set: 9:57 PM
12 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:12 AM
Set: 11:07 PM
13 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:56 AM
Set: –
14 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:44 AM
Set: 1:14 AM
15 Tuesday
First Quarter
1:04 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:35 PM
Set: 2:16 AM
16 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:29 PM
Set: 3:13 AM
17 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:25 PM
Set: 4:04 AM
18 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:23 PM
Set: 4:49 AM
19 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:21 PM
Set: 5:29 AM
20 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:19 PM
Set: 6:05 AM
21 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:16 PM
Set: 6:37 AM
22 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:13 PM
Set: 7:08 AM
23 Wednesday
Full Moon
8:02 AM
Worm Moon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:09 PM
Set: 7:38 AM
24 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Holi
Purim
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:05 PM
Set: 8:08 AM
25 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:00 PM
Set: 8:38 AM
26 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:55 PM
Set: 9:10 AM
27 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:50 PM
Set: 9:44 AM
28 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:21 AM
29 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:45 AM
Set: 11:03 AM
30 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:37 AM
Set: 11:49 AM
31 Thursday
Last Quarter
11:19 AM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:28 AM
Set: 12:41 PM
1 Friday
2 Saturday