Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Last Quarter Tuesday, December 1 1:10 AM
  • New Moon Tuesday, December 8 7:53 PM
  • First Quarter Thursday, December 17 12:43 AM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, December 23 8:30 PM Cold MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, December 30 2:01 PM

Also in December

  • Hanukkah Saturday, December 5 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 25% lit, 9 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 4–12.

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 2026 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
Last Quarter
1:10 AM
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:07 AM
Set: 1:06 PM
2 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:14 AM
Set: 1:29 PM
3 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:20 AM
Set: 1:52 PM
4 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:24 AM
Set: 2:16 PM
Dark night
5 Saturday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:29 AM
Set: 2:42 PM
Dark night
6 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:33 AM
Set: 3:13 PM
Dark night
7 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:37 AM
Set: 3:49 PM
Dark night
8 Tuesday
New Moon
7:53 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:38 AM
Set: 4:32 PM
Dark night
9 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:33 AM
Set: 5:22 PM
Dark night
10 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:21 AM
Set: 6:18 PM
Dark night
11 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:02 AM
Set: 7:18 PM
Dark night
12 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:36 AM
Set: 8:20 PM
Dark night
13 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:05 AM
Set: 9:22 PM
14 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:30 AM
Set: 10:24 PM
15 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:52 AM
Set: 11:25 PM
16 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:14 PM
Set: –
17 Thursday
First Quarter
12:43 AM
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:36 PM
Set: 12:28 AM
18 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:59 PM
Set: 1:33 AM
19 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:26 PM
Set: 2:41 AM
20 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:59 PM
Set: 3:54 AM
21 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 2:40 PM
Set: 5:10 AM
22 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:33 PM
Set: 6:27 AM
23 Wednesday
Full Moon
8:30 PM
Cold Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:39 PM
Set: 7:40 AM
24 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:56 PM
Set: 8:42 AM
25 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:17 PM
Set: 9:31 AM
26 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:36 PM
Set: 10:10 AM
27 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:51 PM
Set: 10:42 AM
28 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:03 PM
Set: 11:09 AM
29 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:33 AM
30 Wednesday
Last Quarter
2:01 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:11 AM
Set: 11:56 AM
31 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:17 AM
Set: 12:20 PM
1 Friday
2 Saturday