Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Last Quarter Sunday, April 4 6:04 AM
  • New Moon Sunday, April 11 10:33 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, April 20 3:00 AM
  • Full Moon Monday, April 26 11:33 PM Pink MoonSupermoon

Also in April

  • Easter Monday, April 4 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Ramadan begins Tuesday, April 13 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 73% lit, 1 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 4–14.

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).

March April 2021 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:50 AM
2 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:02 AM
Set: 10:35 AM
3 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:12 AM
Set: 11:28 AM
4 Sunday
Last Quarter
6:04 AM
Easter
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:14 AM
Set: 12:28 PM
Dark night
5 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 4:06 AM
Set: 1:32 PM
Dark night
6 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:49 AM
Set: 2:38 PM
Dark night
7 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 5:25 AM
Set: 3:44 PM
Dark night
8 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:55 AM
Set: 4:47 PM
Dark night
9 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:21 AM
Set: 5:49 PM
Dark night
10 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:45 AM
Set: 6:49 PM
Dark night
11 Sunday
New Moon
10:33 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:08 AM
Set: 7:49 PM
Dark night
12 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:30 AM
Set: 8:48 PM
Dark night
13 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:54 AM
Set: 9:48 PM
Dark night
14 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:21 AM
Set: 10:48 PM
Dark night
15 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:50 AM
Set: 11:47 PM
16 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:25 AM
Set: –
17 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:06 AM
Set: 12:46 AM
18 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:54 AM
Set: 1:42 AM
19 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:49 AM
Set: 2:33 AM
20 Tuesday
First Quarter
3:00 AM
Visible: 54% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:50 PM
Set: 3:19 AM
21 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:56 PM
Set: 3:59 AM
22 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:05 PM
Set: 4:34 AM
23 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:17 PM
Set: 5:06 AM
24 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:30 PM
Set: 5:35 AM
25 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:45 PM
Set: 6:03 AM
26 Monday
Full Moon
11:33 PM
Pink Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:02 PM
Set: 6:33 AM
27 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:21 PM
Set: 7:05 AM
28 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:40 PM
Set: 7:42 AM
29 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:56 PM
Set: 8:25 AM
30 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:16 AM
1 Saturday