Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Tuesday, April 2 6:05 PM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, April 10 10:58 PM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, April 17 11:22 PM Pink MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, April 24 2:40 PM

Also in April

  • Eid al-Adha Saturday, April 13 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Passover Thursday, April 18 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 21 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 22–23 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 71% lit, 4 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 1–5, April 26–30.

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).

March April 2030 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:18 AM
Set: 7:04 PM
Dark night
2 Tuesday
New Moon
6:05 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:44 AM
Set: 8:05 PM
Dark night
3 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:12 AM
Set: 9:04 PM
Dark night
4 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:42 AM
Set: 10:03 PM
Dark night
5 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:15 AM
Set: 11:01 PM
Dark night
6 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:52 AM
Set: 11:56 PM
7 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:35 AM
Set: –
8 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:23 AM
Set: 12:48 AM
9 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:15 AM
Set: 1:36 AM
10 Wednesday
First Quarter
10:58 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:13 PM
Set: 2:19 AM
11 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:13 PM
Set: 2:57 AM
12 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:16 PM
Set: 3:32 AM
13 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Eid al-Adha
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:22 PM
Set: 4:03 AM
14 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:29 PM
Set: 4:34 AM
15 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:39 PM
Set: 5:04 AM
16 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:52 PM
Set: 5:35 AM
17 Wednesday
Full Moon
11:22 PM
Pink Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:07 PM
Set: 6:09 AM
18 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:23 PM
Set: 6:47 AM
19 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:37 PM
Set: 7:32 AM
20 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:46 PM
Set: 8:24 AM
21 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:24 AM
22 Monday
Waning gibbous
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:47 AM
Set: 10:29 AM
23 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:38 AM
Set: 11:38 AM
24 Wednesday
Last Quarter
2:40 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:20 AM
Set: 12:46 PM
25 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:56 AM
Set: 1:52 PM
26 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:27 AM
Set: 2:56 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:55 AM
Set: 3:58 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:21 AM
Set: 4:58 PM
Dark night
29 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:48 AM
Set: 5:58 PM
Dark night
30 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:15 AM
Set: 6:57 PM
Dark night
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday