Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, January 4 8:41 PM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, January 11 11:05 PM Wolf MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, January 18 2:28 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, January 26 10:14 AM

Also in January

  • Quadrantids meteor shower peak on the night of January 3–4 up to 110 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 44% lit, 6 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Partial lunar eclipse Tuesday, January 11, 11:13 PM visible from Columbus
  • Annular solar eclipse Wednesday, January 26, 9:38 AM visible from Columbus as a partial eclipse, 2.2% of the Sun covered
  • Lunar New Year Wednesday, January 26 Chinese calendar
  • Ramadan begins Friday, January 28 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: January 21–29.

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).

December January 2028 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:32 AM
Set: 10:06 PM
2 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:54 AM
Set: 11:05 PM
3 Monday
Waxing crescent
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:15 AM
Set: –
4 Tuesday
First Quarter
8:41 PM
Visible: 47% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:37 AM
Set: 12:04 AM
5 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:01 PM
Set: 1:05 AM
6 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:29 PM
Set: 2:09 AM
7 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:04 PM
Set: 3:15 AM
8 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: 4:24 AM
9 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 2:40 PM
Set: 5:33 AM
10 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:46 PM
Set: 6:36 AM
11 Tuesday
Full Moon
11:05 PM
Wolf Moon
Supermoon
Partial lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:01 PM
Set: 7:32 AM
12 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:20 PM
Set: 8:18 AM
13 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:40 PM
Set: 8:56 AM
14 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:57 PM
Set: 9:28 AM
15 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:11 PM
Set: 9:57 AM
16 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:24 PM
Set: 10:24 AM
17 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:50 AM
18 Tuesday
Last Quarter
2:28 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:35 AM
Set: 11:19 AM
19 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:45 AM
Set: 11:50 AM
20 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:54 AM
Set: 12:27 PM
21 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:59 AM
Set: 1:10 PM
Dark night
22 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:59 AM
Set: 1:59 PM
Dark night
23 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:52 AM
Set: 2:55 PM
Dark night
24 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:37 AM
Set: 3:55 PM
Dark night
25 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:15 AM
Set: 4:56 PM
Dark night
26 Wednesday
New Moon
10:14 AM
Annular solar eclipse
Lunar New Year
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:46 AM
Set: 5:58 PM
Dark night
27 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:13 AM
Set: 6:58 PM
Dark night
28 Friday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:37 AM
Set: 7:58 PM
Dark night
29 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:59 AM
Set: 8:56 PM
Dark night
30 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:20 AM
Set: 9:55 PM
31 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:41 AM
Set: 10:55 PM
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday