Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Wednesday, July 2 3:30 PM
  • Full Moon Thursday, July 10 4:39 PM Buck Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, July 17 8:40 PM
  • New Moon Thursday, July 24 3:12 PM

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: July 21–30.

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).

June July 2025 August
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:42 PM
Set: 12:33 AM
2 Wednesday
First Quarter
3:30 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:42 PM
Set: 12:53 AM
3 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:43 PM
Set: 1:13 AM
4 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:44 PM
Set: 1:34 AM
5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:46 PM
Set: 1:58 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:49 PM
Set: 2:26 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:51 PM
Set: 3:00 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:50 PM
Set: 3:42 AM
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 8:43 PM
Set: 4:32 AM
10 Thursday
Full Moon
4:39 PM
Buck Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 9:28 PM
Set: 5:32 AM
11 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 10:05 PM
Set: 6:38 AM
12 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:37 PM
Set: 7:48 AM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:04 PM
Set: 8:59 AM
14 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:28 PM
Set: 10:09 AM
15 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:51 PM
Set: 11:19 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:29 PM
17 Thursday
Last Quarter
8:40 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:14 AM
Set: 1:41 PM
18 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:40 AM
Set: 2:55 PM
19 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:10 AM
Set: 4:12 PM
20 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 1:47 AM
Set: 5:29 PM
21 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 2:33 AM
Set: 6:41 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 3:30 AM
Set: 7:44 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 4:38 AM
Set: 8:35 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
New Moon
3:12 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 5:51 AM
Set: 9:15 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:05 AM
Set: 9:47 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:16 AM
Set: 10:13 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:23 AM
Set: 10:35 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:27 AM
Set: 10:56 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:30 AM
Set: 11:16 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:31 PM
Set: 11:37 PM
Dark night
31 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:32 PM
Set: 11:59 PM
1 Friday
2 Saturday