Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Monday, March 2 2:59 PM
  • Full Moon Monday, March 9 1:49 PM Worm MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Monday, March 16 5:36 AM
  • New Moon Tuesday, March 24 5:30 AM

Also in March

  • Holi Tuesday, March 10 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Purim Tuesday, March 10 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: March 17–26.

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 2020 April
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:41 AM
Set: 12:11 AM
2 Monday
First Quarter
2:59 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:16 AM
Set: 1:12 AM
3 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 11:58 AM
Set: 2:13 AM
4 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:48 PM
Set: 3:14 AM
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: 4:12 AM
6 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:54 PM
Set: 5:05 AM
7 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:07 PM
Set: 5:52 AM
8 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:23 PM
Set: 7:33 AM
9 Monday
Full Moon
1:49 PM
Worm Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:40 PM
Set: 8:10 AM
10 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Holi
Purim
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:56 PM
Set: 8:44 AM
11 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:12 PM
Set: 9:16 AM
12 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:26 PM
Set: 9:49 AM
13 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:23 AM
14 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:39 AM
Set: 11:00 AM
15 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:49 AM
Set: 11:42 AM
16 Monday
Last Quarter
5:36 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:54 AM
Set: 12:29 PM
17 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:53 AM
Set: 1:21 PM
Dark night
18 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 28% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:45 AM
Set: 2:17 PM
Dark night
19 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 5:29 AM
Set: 3:16 PM
Dark night
20 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 6:07 AM
Set: 4:16 PM
Dark night
21 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:40 AM
Set: 5:15 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 7:08 AM
Set: 6:14 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:34 AM
Set: 7:12 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
New Moon
5:30 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:59 AM
Set: 8:10 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:23 AM
Set: 9:07 PM
Dark night
26 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:47 AM
Set: 10:05 PM
Dark night
27 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:13 AM
Set: 11:05 PM
28 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:42 AM
Set: –
29 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:15 AM
Set: 12:05 AM
30 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:53 AM
Set: 1:05 AM
31 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:39 AM
Set: 2:05 AM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday