Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Last Quarter Monday, April 1 11:16 PM
  • New Moon Monday, April 8 2:23 PM
  • First Quarter Monday, April 15 3:14 PM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, April 23 7:51 PM Pink Moon

Also in April

  • Total solar eclipse Monday, April 8, 3:13 PM visible from Columbus as a partial eclipse, 99.8% of the Sun covered
  • Eid al-Fitr Wednesday, April 10 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 97% lit, 0 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Passover Tuesday, April 23 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 2–10.

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 2024 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
Last Quarter
11:16 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:48 AM
Set: 11:29 AM
2 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:43 AM
Set: 12:36 PM
Dark night
3 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 4:29 AM
Set: 1:49 PM
Dark night
4 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 5:08 AM
Set: 3:06 PM
Dark night
5 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 5:40 AM
Set: 4:24 PM
Dark night
6 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:08 AM
Set: 5:42 PM
Dark night
7 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:34 AM
Set: 7:00 PM
Dark night
8 Monday
New Moon
2:23 PM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:59 AM
Set: 8:17 PM
Dark night
9 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:26 AM
Set: 9:36 PM
Dark night
10 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:57 AM
Set: 10:54 PM
Dark night
11 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:33 AM
Set: –
12 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:16 AM
Set: 12:10 AM
13 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:07 AM
Set: 1:19 AM
14 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:05 AM
Set: 2:19 AM
15 Monday
First Quarter
3:14 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:08 PM
Set: 3:07 AM
16 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:13 PM
Set: 3:46 AM
17 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:16 PM
Set: 4:18 AM
18 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:18 PM
Set: 4:43 AM
19 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:18 PM
Set: 5:05 AM
20 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:18 PM
Set: 5:25 AM
21 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:17 PM
Set: 5:45 AM
22 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:17 PM
Set: 6:04 AM
23 Tuesday
Full Moon
7:51 PM
Pink Moon
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:20 PM
Set: 6:25 AM
24 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:25 PM
Set: 6:48 AM
25 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:31 PM
Set: 7:16 AM
26 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:38 PM
Set: 7:49 AM
27 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:32 AM
28 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:42 AM
Set: 9:24 AM
29 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:39 AM
Set: 10:27 AM
30 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:27 AM
Set: 11:37 AM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday