Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Friday, January 6 6:10 PM Wolf MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, January 14 9:13 PM
  • New Moon Saturday, January 21 3:56 PM
  • First Quarter Saturday, January 28 10:20 AM

Also in January

  • Quadrantids meteor shower peak on the night of January 3–4 up to 110 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 93% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Lunar New Year Sunday, January 22 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: January 17–24.

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).

December January 2023 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:36 PM
Set: 2:58 AM
2 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:05 PM
Set: 4:04 AM
3 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:38 PM
Set: 5:08 AM
4 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:18 PM
Set: 6:11 AM
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:04 PM
Set: 7:09 AM
6 Friday
Full Moon
6:10 PM
Wolf Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:57 PM
Set: 8:02 AM
7 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:55 PM
Set: 8:46 AM
8 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:56 PM
Set: 9:24 AM
9 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:58 PM
Set: 9:56 AM
10 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:59 PM
Set: 10:23 AM
11 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:00 PM
Set: 10:46 AM
12 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:01 PM
Set: 11:08 AM
13 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 64% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:29 AM
14 Saturday
Last Quarter
9:13 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:03 AM
Set: 11:51 AM
15 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:07 AM
Set: 12:14 PM
16 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:15 AM
Set: 12:42 PM
17 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:27 AM
Set: 1:16 PM
Dark night
18 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:42 AM
Set: 1:59 PM
Dark night
19 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:56 AM
Set: 2:55 PM
Dark night
20 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:05 AM
Set: 4:03 PM
Dark night
21 Saturday
New Moon
3:56 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 8:04 AM
Set: 5:21 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Lunar New Year
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:51 AM
Set: 6:43 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:28 AM
Set: 8:03 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:58 AM
Set: 9:20 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:25 AM
Set: 10:32 PM
26 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:49 AM
Set: 11:41 PM
27 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:13 AM
Set: –
28 Saturday
First Quarter
10:20 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:39 AM
Set: 12:49 AM
29 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:06 PM
Set: 1:56 AM
30 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:38 PM
Set: 3:01 AM
31 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:16 PM
Set: 4:05 AM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday