Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Thursday, May 7 6:46 AM Flower MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, May 14 10:03 AM
  • New Moon Friday, May 22 1:40 PM
  • First Quarter Friday, May 29 11:30 PM

Also in May

  • Eta Aquariids meteor shower peak on the night of May 5–6 up to 50 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 96% lit, 0 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Eid al-Fitr Sunday, May 24 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Shavuot Friday, May 29 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: May 14–25.

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).

April May 2020 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:37 PM
Set: 3:24 AM
2 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:49 PM
Set: 4:01 AM
3 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:02 PM
Set: 4:35 AM
4 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:16 PM
Set: 5:07 AM
5 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:31 PM
Set: 5:38 AM
6 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:47 PM
Set: 6:10 AM
7 Thursday
Full Moon
6:46 AM
Flower Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:04 PM
Set: 6:45 AM
8 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:18 PM
Set: 7:23 AM
9 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:27 PM
Set: 8:08 AM
10 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:58 AM
11 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:30 AM
Set: 9:55 AM
12 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:23 AM
Set: 10:55 AM
13 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:08 AM
Set: 11:57 AM
14 Thursday
Last Quarter
10:03 AM
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:45 AM
Set: 12:58 PM
Dark night
15 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:16 AM
Set: 1:59 PM
Dark night
16 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:44 AM
Set: 2:58 PM
Dark night
17 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:09 AM
Set: 3:56 PM
Dark night
18 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:32 AM
Set: 4:53 PM
Dark night
19 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:56 AM
Set: 5:51 PM
Dark night
20 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:20 AM
Set: 6:50 PM
Dark night
21 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:47 AM
Set: 7:51 PM
Dark night
22 Friday
New Moon
1:40 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:17 AM
Set: 8:52 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:52 AM
Set: 9:54 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:33 AM
Set: 10:54 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:22 AM
Set: 11:50 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:18 AM
Set: –
27 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:20 AM
Set: 12:40 AM
28 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:28 AM
Set: 1:24 AM
29 Friday
First Quarter
11:30 PM
Shavuot
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:37 PM
Set: 2:03 AM
30 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:48 PM
Set: 2:37 AM
31 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:59 PM
Set: 3:08 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday