Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Thursday, April 6 12:37 AM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, April 13 5:13 AM
  • New Moon Thursday, April 20 12:16 AM
  • First Quarter Thursday, April 27 5:21 PM

Also in April

  • Passover Thursday, April 6 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 9 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Total solar eclipse Thursday, April 20, 12:17 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Eid al-Fitr Friday, April 21 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 22–23 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 9% lit, 6 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 13–21.

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 2023 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:32 PM
Set: 5:32 AM
2 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:34 PM
Set: 5:59 AM
3 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:36 PM
Set: 6:22 AM
4 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:38 PM
Set: 6:44 AM
5 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:41 PM
Set: 7:05 AM
6 Thursday
Full Moon
12:37 AM
Pink Moon
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:46 PM
Set: 7:26 AM
7 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:54 PM
Set: 7:50 AM
8 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:05 PM
Set: 8:17 AM
9 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:49 AM
10 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:17 AM
Set: 9:30 AM
11 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:27 AM
Set: 10:20 AM
12 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:32 AM
Set: 11:22 AM
13 Thursday
Last Quarter
5:13 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:27 AM
Set: 12:32 PM
Dark night
14 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 4:13 AM
Set: 1:48 PM
Dark night
15 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:50 AM
Set: 3:04 PM
Dark night
16 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 5:20 AM
Set: 4:19 PM
Dark night
17 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:47 AM
Set: 5:33 PM
Dark night
18 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:12 AM
Set: 6:45 PM
Dark night
19 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:36 AM
Set: 7:56 PM
Dark night
20 Thursday
New Moon
12:16 AM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:02 AM
Set: 9:08 PM
Dark night
21 Friday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:30 AM
Set: 10:19 PM
Dark night
22 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:03 AM
Set: 11:27 PM
23 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:41 AM
Set: –
24 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:26 AM
Set: 12:32 AM
25 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:19 AM
Set: 1:29 AM
26 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:16 AM
Set: 2:18 AM
27 Thursday
First Quarter
5:21 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:17 PM
Set: 2:59 AM
28 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:19 PM
Set: 3:33 AM
29 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:21 PM
Set: 4:01 AM
30 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:23 PM
Set: 4:25 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday