Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Sunday, December 1 1:22 AM
  • First Quarter Sunday, December 8 10:28 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, December 15 4:03 AM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, December 22 5:20 PM
  • New Moon Monday, December 30 5:28 PM

Also in December

  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 97% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Thursday, December 26 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 1–4, December 26–31.

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).

November December 2024 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
New Moon
1:22 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:15 AM
Set: 5:07 PM
Dark night
2 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:16 AM
Set: 5:59 PM
Dark night
3 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:11 AM
Set: 6:59 PM
Dark night
4 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:58 AM
Set: 8:07 PM
Dark night
5 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:36 AM
Set: 9:18 PM
6 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:08 PM
Set: 10:30 PM
7 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:35 PM
Set: 11:42 PM
8 Sunday
First Quarter
10:28 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:00 PM
Set: –
9 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:24 PM
Set: 12:54 AM
10 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:48 PM
Set: 2:06 AM
11 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:15 PM
Set: 3:20 AM
12 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:47 PM
Set: 4:37 AM
13 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:25 PM
Set: 5:56 AM
14 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:14 PM
Set: 7:13 AM
15 Sunday
Full Moon
4:03 AM
Cold Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:12 PM
Set: 8:24 AM
16 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:19 PM
Set: 9:24 AM
17 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:30 PM
Set: 10:12 AM
18 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:40 PM
Set: 10:49 AM
19 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:47 PM
Set: 11:19 AM
20 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:50 PM
Set: 11:43 AM
21 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:51 PM
Set: 12:04 PM
22 Sunday
Last Quarter
5:20 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:24 PM
23 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:50 AM
Set: 12:43 PM
24 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:49 AM
Set: 1:03 PM
25 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:50 AM
Set: 1:25 PM
26 Thursday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:52 AM
Set: 1:51 PM
Dark night
27 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:56 AM
Set: 2:22 PM
Dark night
28 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:01 AM
Set: 3:01 PM
Dark night
29 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:05 AM
Set: 3:49 PM
Dark night
30 Monday
New Moon
5:28 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 8:03 AM
Set: 4:48 PM
Dark night
31 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:54 AM
Set: 5:55 PM
Dark night
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday