Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Thursday, February 3 2:11 PM
  • Full Moon Thursday, February 10 10:05 AM Snow MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, February 17 3:10 AM
  • New Moon Friday, February 25 5:39 AM

Also in February

  • Lantern Festival Wednesday, February 9 Chinese calendar
  • Eid al-Fitr Saturday, February 26 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: February 18–28.

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).

January February 2028 March
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:04 AM
Set: 11:56 PM
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:30 AM
Set: –
3 Thursday
First Quarter
2:11 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:00 AM
Set: 1:00 AM
4 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 11:38 AM
Set: 2:06 AM
5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:25 PM
Set: 3:12 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:22 PM
Set: 4:17 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:31 PM
Set: 5:15 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:48 PM
Set: 6:05 AM
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Lantern Festival
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:08 PM
Set: 6:48 AM
10 Thursday
Full Moon
10:05 AM
Snow Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:28 PM
Set: 7:23 AM
11 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:46 PM
Set: 7:54 AM
12 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:02 PM
Set: 8:23 AM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:17 PM
Set: 8:50 AM
14 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:30 PM
Set: 9:19 AM
15 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:51 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:42 AM
Set: 10:26 AM
17 Thursday
Last Quarter
3:10 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:50 AM
Set: 11:08 AM
18 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:53 AM
Set: 11:56 AM
Dark night
19 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:49 AM
Set: 12:50 PM
Dark night
20 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:36 AM
Set: 1:48 PM
Dark night
21 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:16 AM
Set: 2:49 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:49 AM
Set: 3:50 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:17 AM
Set: 4:51 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:42 AM
Set: 5:51 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
New Moon
5:39 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:04 AM
Set: 6:50 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:26 AM
Set: 7:48 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:47 AM
Set: 8:48 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:09 AM
Set: 9:48 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:34 AM
Set: 10:51 PM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday