Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Thursday, November 4 5:15 PM
  • First Quarter Thursday, November 11 7:48 AM
  • Full Moon Friday, November 19 4:00 AM Beaver MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, November 27 7:30 AM

Also in November

  • Diwali Thursday, November 4 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Leonids meteor shower peak on the night of November 17–18 up to 15 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 97% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Partial lunar eclipse Friday, November 19, 4:03 AM visible from Columbus
  • Hanukkah Monday, November 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: November 1–8, November 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).

October November 2021 December
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:58 AM
Set: 5:05 PM
Dark night
2 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:08 AM
Set: 5:31 PM
Dark night
3 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:21 AM
Set: 5:59 PM
Dark night
4 Thursday
New Moon
5:15 PM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:37 AM
Set: 6:30 PM
Dark night
5 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:56 AM
Set: 7:07 PM
Dark night
6 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:16 AM
Set: 7:51 PM
Dark night
7 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:32 AM
Set: 7:44 PM
Dark night
8 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:41 AM
Set: 8:47 PM
Dark night
9 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:39 PM
Set: 9:56 PM
10 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:25 PM
Set: 11:07 PM
11 Thursday
First Quarter
7:48 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:03 PM
Set: –
12 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:33 PM
Set: 12:16 AM
13 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:59 PM
Set: 1:23 AM
14 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:23 PM
Set: 2:28 AM
15 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:45 PM
Set: 3:30 AM
16 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:08 PM
Set: 4:31 AM
17 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Leonids meteor shower
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:32 PM
Set: 5:32 AM
18 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:58 PM
Set: 6:33 AM
19 Friday
Full Moon
4:00 AM
Beaver Moon
Micromoon
Partial lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:28 PM
Set: 7:34 AM
20 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:03 PM
Set: 8:34 AM
21 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:44 PM
Set: 9:33 AM
22 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:32 PM
Set: 10:28 AM
23 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:26 PM
Set: 11:18 AM
24 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:25 PM
Set: 12:01 PM
25 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:28 PM
Set: 12:38 PM
26 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:33 PM
Set: 1:10 PM
27 Saturday
Last Quarter
7:30 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:39 PM
28 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 38% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:39 AM
Set: 2:05 PM
29 Monday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:46 AM
Set: 2:30 PM
30 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:56 AM
Set: 2:56 PM
Dark night
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday