Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Friday, April 4 10:17 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, April 12 8:24 PM Pink MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, April 20 9:38 PM
  • New Moon Sunday, April 27 3:33 PM

Also in April

  • Passover Sunday, April 13 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 20 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 34% 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 21–29.

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 2025 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:55 AM
Set: –
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:39 AM
Set: 12:32 AM
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:34 AM
Set: 1:46 AM
4 Friday
First Quarter
10:17 PM
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:37 AM
Set: 2:49 AM
5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:44 PM
Set: 3:40 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:53 PM
Set: 4:20 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:01 PM
Set: 4:52 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:05 PM
Set: 5:18 AM
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:07 PM
Set: 5:40 AM
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:07 PM
Set: 6:00 AM
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:07 PM
Set: 6:20 AM
12 Saturday
Full Moon
8:24 PM
Pink Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:07 PM
Set: 6:39 AM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:08 PM
Set: 7:00 AM
14 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:11 PM
Set: 7:23 AM
15 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:14 PM
Set: 7:51 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:24 AM
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 12:16 AM
Set: 9:05 AM
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 1:14 AM
Set: 9:54 AM
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 64% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 2:07 AM
Set: 10:52 AM
20 Sunday
Last Quarter
9:38 PM
Easter
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:52 AM
Set: 11:57 AM
21 Monday
Waning crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:30 AM
Set: 1:07 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 4:01 AM
Set: 2:19 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:29 AM
Set: 3:32 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:55 AM
Set: 4:46 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:19 AM
Set: 6:01 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:45 AM
Set: 7:20 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
New Moon
3:33 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:13 AM
Set: 8:41 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 6:47 AM
Set: 10:04 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:29 AM
Set: 11:24 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:20 AM
Set: –
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday