Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Friday, December 1 8:42 PM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, December 9 12:40 AM
  • New Moon Friday, December 15 9:07 PM
  • First Quarter Saturday, December 23 4:45 PM
  • Full Moon Sunday, December 31 11:50 AM Cold MoonBlue Moon

Also in December

  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 5% lit, 11 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Wednesday, December 13 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Total lunar eclipse Sunday, December 31, 11:52 AM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 11–19.

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 2028 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Full Moon
8:42 PM
Cold Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:41 PM
Set: 7:18 AM
2 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:34 PM
Set: 8:17 AM
3 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:35 PM
Set: 9:11 AM
4 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:42 PM
Set: 9:58 AM
5 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:52 PM
Set: 10:39 AM
6 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:03 PM
Set: 11:13 AM
7 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:13 PM
Set: 11:44 AM
8 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 56% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:12 PM
9 Saturday
Last Quarter
12:40 AM
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:24 AM
Set: 12:40 PM
10 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:35 AM
Set: 1:08 PM
11 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:47 AM
Set: 1:39 PM
Dark night
12 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:00 AM
Set: 2:15 PM
Dark night
13 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Geminids meteor shower
Hanukkah
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:13 AM
Set: 2:57 PM
Dark night
14 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:24 AM
Set: 3:46 PM
Dark night
15 Friday
New Moon
9:07 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:29 AM
Set: 4:43 PM
Dark night
16 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:25 AM
Set: 5:47 PM
Dark night
17 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:11 AM
Set: 6:53 PM
Dark night
18 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:50 AM
Set: 7:58 PM
Dark night
19 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:21 AM
Set: 9:02 PM
Dark night
20 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:49 AM
Set: 10:04 PM
21 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:13 AM
Set: 11:03 PM
22 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:36 AM
Set: –
23 Saturday
First Quarter
4:45 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:58 AM
Set: 12:02 AM
24 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:21 PM
Set: 1:00 AM
25 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:47 PM
Set: 1:59 AM
26 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:16 PM
Set: 2:59 AM
27 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:50 PM
Set: 4:01 AM
28 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:32 PM
Set: 5:03 AM
29 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:22 PM
Set: 6:04 AM
30 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:21 PM
Set: 7:01 AM
31 Sunday
Full Moon
11:50 AM
Cold Moon
Blue Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:27 PM
Set: 7:52 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday