Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Saturday, December 4 2:45 AM
  • First Quarter Friday, December 10 8:38 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, December 18 11:38 PM Cold MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, December 26 9:26 PM

Also in December

  • Total solar eclipse Saturday, December 4, 2:33 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 80% lit, 3 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 1–7, December 29–31.

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).

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:08 AM
Set: 3:25 PM
Dark night
2 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:24 AM
Set: 3:58 PM
Dark night
3 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:44 AM
Set: 4:37 PM
Dark night
4 Saturday
New Moon
2:45 AM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:04 AM
Set: 5:27 PM
Dark night
5 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:19 AM
Set: 6:27 PM
Dark night
6 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:25 AM
Set: 7:36 PM
Dark night
7 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:19 AM
Set: 8:49 PM
Dark night
8 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:01 PM
Set: 10:02 PM
9 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:35 PM
Set: 11:13 PM
10 Friday
First Quarter
8:38 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:03 PM
Set: –
11 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:28 PM
Set: 12:19 AM
12 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:51 PM
Set: 1:23 AM
13 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:13 PM
Set: 2:24 AM
14 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:36 PM
Set: 3:25 AM
15 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:01 PM
Set: 4:25 AM
16 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:30 PM
Set: 5:26 AM
17 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:03 PM
Set: 6:27 AM
18 Saturday
Full Moon
11:38 PM
Cold Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:42 PM
Set: 7:26 AM
19 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:28 PM
Set: 8:23 AM
20 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:21 PM
Set: 9:14 AM
21 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:19 PM
Set: 10:00 AM
22 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:20 PM
Set: 10:39 AM
23 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:24 PM
Set: 11:12 AM
24 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:28 PM
Set: 11:41 AM
25 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 64% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:33 PM
Set: 12:08 PM
26 Sunday
Last Quarter
9:26 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:32 PM
27 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:39 AM
Set: 12:57 PM
28 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:48 AM
Set: 1:23 PM
29 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:59 AM
Set: 1:52 PM
Dark night
30 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:14 AM
Set: 2:27 PM
Dark night
31 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:33 AM
Set: 3:10 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday