Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Wednesday, December 5 9:53 AM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, December 12 12:50 PM
  • Full Moon Thursday, December 20 5:48 PM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Friday, December 28 4:50 AM

Also in December

  • Hanukkah Sunday, December 2 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Partial solar eclipse Wednesday, December 5, 10:03 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 65% lit, 4 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Total lunar eclipse Thursday, December 20, 5:42 PM visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 1–8, December 30–31.

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 2029 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
25 Sunday
26 Monday
27 Tuesday
28 Wednesday
29 Thursday
30 Friday
1 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:48 AM
Set: 2:03 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:01 AM
Set: 2:40 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:17 AM
Set: 3:23 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:32 AM
Set: 4:14 PM
Dark night
5 Wednesday
New Moon
9:53 AM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:43 AM
Set: 5:14 PM
Dark night
6 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:46 AM
Set: 6:21 PM
Dark night
7 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:38 AM
Set: 7:32 PM
Dark night
8 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:21 AM
Set: 8:42 PM
Dark night
9 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:57 AM
Set: 9:50 PM
10 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:27 AM
Set: 10:55 PM
11 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:54 AM
Set: 11:56 PM
12 Wednesday
First Quarter
12:50 PM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:19 PM
Set: –
13 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:44 PM
Set: 12:56 AM
14 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:10 PM
Set: 1:55 AM
15 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:38 PM
Set: 2:54 AM
16 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:09 PM
Set: 3:52 AM
17 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:44 PM
Set: 4:51 AM
18 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:25 PM
Set: 5:48 AM
19 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:12 PM
Set: 6:43 AM
20 Thursday
Full Moon
5:48 PM
Cold Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:05 PM
Set: 7:33 AM
21 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:04 PM
Set: 8:19 AM
22 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:06 PM
Set: 9:00 AM
23 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:10 PM
Set: 9:36 AM
24 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:15 PM
Set: 10:08 AM
25 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:20 PM
Set: 10:37 AM
26 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:27 PM
Set: 11:05 AM
27 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:34 AM
28 Friday
Last Quarter
4:50 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:35 AM
Set: 12:04 PM
29 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:45 AM
Set: 12:37 PM
30 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:57 AM
Set: 1:15 PM
Dark night
31 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:10 AM
Set: 2:01 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday