Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Monday, August 2 6:06 AM
  • First Quarter Monday, August 9 12:55 AM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, August 17 3:30 AM Sturgeon MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, August 24 10:29 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, August 31 1:42 PM

Also in August

  • Total solar eclipse Monday, August 2, 6:07 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 12–13 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 86% lit, 2 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Tuesday, August 17, 3:14 AM visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 1–7, August 28–31.

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 2027 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:17 AM
Set: 8:26 PM
Dark night
2 Monday
New Moon
6:06 AM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:38 AM
Set: 9:01 PM
Dark night
3 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:58 AM
Set: 9:31 PM
Dark night
4 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:15 AM
Set: 9:58 PM
Dark night
5 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:30 AM
Set: 10:24 PM
Dark night
6 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:42 AM
Set: 10:51 PM
Dark night
7 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:52 PM
Set: 11:19 PM
Dark night
8 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:01 PM
Set: 11:51 PM
9 Monday
First Quarter
12:55 AM
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:08 PM
Set: –
10 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 4:11 PM
Set: 12:28 AM
11 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 5:08 PM
Set: 1:12 AM
12 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:58 PM
Set: 2:02 AM
13 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:40 PM
Set: 2:57 AM
14 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:15 PM
Set: 3:57 AM
15 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:45 PM
Set: 4:58 AM
16 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:10 PM
Set: 6:00 AM
17 Tuesday
Full Moon
3:30 AM
Sturgeon Moon
Micromoon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:33 PM
Set: 7:00 AM
18 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:55 PM
Set: 8:00 AM
19 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:16 PM
Set: 9:00 AM
20 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:37 PM
Set: 10:01 AM
21 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:01 PM
Set: 11:03 AM
22 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:29 PM
Set: 12:08 PM
23 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:02 PM
Set: 1:15 PM
24 Tuesday
Last Quarter
10:29 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:43 PM
Set: 2:24 PM
25 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:32 PM
26 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:35 AM
Set: 4:35 PM
27 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:38 AM
Set: 5:31 PM
28 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:51 AM
Set: 6:17 PM
Dark night
29 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:09 AM
Set: 6:55 PM
Dark night
30 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:29 AM
Set: 7:28 PM
Dark night
31 Tuesday
New Moon
1:42 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:47 AM
Set: 7:56 PM
Dark night
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday