Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Monday, December 6 12:22 AM
  • Full Moon Monday, December 13 11:11 AM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Monday, December 20 4:13 AM
  • New Moon Monday, December 27 3:14 PM

Also in December

  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 14–15 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 98% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Saturday, December 25 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, December 23–31.

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 2027 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:42 AM
Set: 8:15 PM
Dark night
2 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:15 AM
Set: 9:17 PM
3 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:43 AM
Set: 10:18 PM
4 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:07 PM
Set: 11:17 PM
5 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:29 PM
Set: –
6 Monday
First Quarter
12:22 AM
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:51 PM
Set: 12:17 AM
7 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:12 PM
Set: 1:16 AM
8 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:36 PM
Set: 2:17 AM
9 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:02 PM
Set: 3:21 AM
10 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:34 PM
Set: 4:28 AM
11 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:13 PM
Set: 5:37 AM
12 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:02 PM
Set: 6:48 AM
13 Monday
Full Moon
11:11 AM
Cold Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:02 PM
Set: 7:55 AM
14 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:12 PM
Set: 8:55 AM
15 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:28 PM
Set: 9:45 AM
16 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:46 PM
Set: 10:26 AM
17 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:01 PM
Set: 10:59 AM
18 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:14 PM
Set: 11:29 AM
19 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:55 AM
20 Monday
Last Quarter
4:13 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:25 AM
Set: 12:21 PM
21 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:35 AM
Set: 12:47 PM
22 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:44 AM
Set: 1:16 PM
23 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:53 AM
Set: 1:49 PM
Dark night
24 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:01 AM
Set: 2:27 PM
Dark night
25 Saturday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:06 AM
Set: 3:12 PM
Dark night
26 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:04 AM
Set: 4:04 PM
Dark night
27 Monday
New Moon
3:14 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:56 AM
Set: 5:02 PM
Dark night
28 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:39 AM
Set: 6:04 PM
Dark night
29 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:14 AM
Set: 7:06 PM
Dark night
30 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:44 AM
Set: 8:07 PM
Dark night
31 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:09 AM
Set: 9:07 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday