Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Sunday, August 4 7:14 AM
  • First Quarter Monday, August 12 11:20 AM
  • Full Moon Monday, August 19 2:29 PM Sturgeon MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Monday, August 26 5:29 AM

Also in August

  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 11–12 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 49% lit, 5 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: August 1–10, August 30–31.

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).

July August 2024 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:13 AM
Set: 7:22 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:14 AM
Set: 8:08 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:20 AM
Set: 8:44 PM
Dark night
4 Sunday
New Moon
7:14 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:26 AM
Set: 9:14 PM
Dark night
5 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:31 AM
Set: 9:39 PM
Dark night
6 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:34 AM
Set: 10:00 PM
Dark night
7 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:35 AM
Set: 10:20 PM
Dark night
8 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:34 AM
Set: 10:39 PM
Dark night
9 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:33 AM
Set: 10:58 PM
Dark night
10 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:33 PM
Set: 11:19 PM
Dark night
11 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:35 PM
Set: 11:44 PM
12 Monday
First Quarter
11:20 AM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:39 PM
Set: –
13 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:45 PM
Set: 12:13 AM
14 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:50 PM
Set: 12:50 AM
15 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:52 PM
Set: 1:37 AM
16 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:47 PM
Set: 2:35 AM
17 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:33 PM
Set: 3:44 AM
18 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 8:11 PM
Set: 5:01 AM
19 Monday
Full Moon
2:29 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:43 PM
Set: 6:20 AM
20 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:10 PM
Set: 7:39 AM
21 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:35 PM
Set: 8:57 AM
22 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:01 PM
Set: 10:13 AM
23 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:27 PM
Set: 11:29 AM
24 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:57 PM
Set: 12:45 PM
25 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:33 PM
Set: 2:01 PM
26 Monday
Last Quarter
5:29 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:14 PM
27 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:16 AM
Set: 4:21 PM
28 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:07 AM
Set: 5:20 PM
29 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:07 AM
Set: 6:08 PM
30 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:11 AM
Set: 6:46 PM
Dark night
31 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:17 AM
Set: 7:17 PM
Dark night