Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Friday, April 1 2:28 AM
  • First Quarter Saturday, April 9 2:48 AM
  • Full Moon Saturday, April 16 2:58 PM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, April 23 7:58 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, April 30 4:31 PM

Also in April

  • Ramadan begins Saturday, April 2 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Passover Saturday, April 16 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 17 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 22–23 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 58% lit, 5 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Partial solar eclipse Saturday, April 30, 4:41 PM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 1–3, April 23–30.

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).

March April 2022 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
31 Thursday
1 Friday
New Moon
2:28 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:42 AM
Set: 8:32 PM
Dark night
2 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:06 AM
Set: 9:37 PM
Dark night
3 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:31 AM
Set: 10:41 PM
Dark night
4 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:58 AM
Set: 11:44 PM
5 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:29 AM
Set: –
6 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:06 AM
Set: 12:46 AM
7 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:49 AM
Set: 1:45 AM
8 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:38 AM
Set: 2:39 AM
9 Saturday
First Quarter
2:48 AM
Visible: 54% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:34 PM
Set: 3:27 AM
10 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:34 PM
Set: 4:09 AM
11 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:38 PM
Set: 4:45 AM
12 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:43 PM
Set: 5:15 AM
13 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:50 PM
Set: 5:43 AM
14 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:58 PM
Set: 6:08 AM
15 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:07 PM
Set: 6:33 AM
16 Saturday
Full Moon
2:58 PM
Pink Moon
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:19 PM
Set: 6:58 AM
17 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:34 PM
Set: 7:26 AM
18 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:51 PM
Set: 7:57 AM
19 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:36 AM
20 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:08 AM
Set: 9:23 AM
21 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:20 AM
Set: 10:20 AM
22 Friday
Waning gibbous
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:22 AM
Set: 11:26 AM
23 Saturday
Last Quarter
7:58 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:14 AM
Set: 12:37 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:56 AM
Set: 1:50 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:30 AM
Set: 3:01 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:58 AM
Set: 4:10 PM
Dark night
27 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:23 AM
Set: 5:16 PM
Dark night
28 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:46 AM
Set: 6:21 PM
Dark night
29 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:09 AM
Set: 7:24 PM
Dark night
30 Saturday
New Moon
4:31 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:33 AM
Set: 8:28 PM
Dark night