Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Sunday, March 5 6:34 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, March 12 10:55 AM Worm Moon
  • Last Quarter Monday, March 20 12:01 PM
  • New Moon Monday, March 27 10:59 PM

Also in March

  • Purim Sunday, March 12 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Holi Monday, March 13 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: March 22–30.

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).

February March 2017 April
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:58 AM
Set: 10:00 PM
2 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:35 AM
Set: 11:08 PM
3 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:15 AM
Set: –
4 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:58 AM
Set: 12:17 AM
5 Sunday
First Quarter
6:34 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:46 AM
Set: 1:23 AM
6 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:40 PM
Set: 2:26 AM
7 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:38 PM
Set: 3:24 AM
8 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:39 PM
Set: 4:17 AM
9 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:43 PM
Set: 5:04 AM
10 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:47 PM
Set: 5:45 AM
11 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:50 PM
Set: 6:22 AM
12 Sunday
Full Moon
10:55 AM
Worm Moon
Purim
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:51 PM
Set: 7:55 AM
13 Monday
Waning gibbous
Holi
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:52 PM
Set: 8:27 AM
14 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:51 PM
Set: 8:58 AM
15 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:48 PM
Set: 9:29 AM
16 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:45 PM
Set: 10:00 AM
17 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:34 AM
18 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:41 AM
Set: 11:10 AM
19 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:35 AM
Set: 11:50 AM
20 Monday
Last Quarter
12:01 PM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:27 AM
Set: 12:34 PM
21 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:17 AM
Set: 1:22 PM
22 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 4:03 AM
Set: 2:15 PM
Dark night
23 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:47 AM
Set: 3:13 PM
Dark night
24 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 5:28 AM
Set: 4:14 PM
Dark night
25 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 6:07 AM
Set: 5:18 PM
Dark night
26 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:43 AM
Set: 6:24 PM
Dark night
27 Monday
New Moon
10:59 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:19 AM
Set: 7:33 PM
Dark night
28 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:55 AM
Set: 8:43 PM
Dark night
29 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:32 AM
Set: 9:53 PM
Dark night
30 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:11 AM
Set: 11:04 PM
Dark night
31 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:54 AM
Set: –
1 Saturday