Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, August 6 12:43 PM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, August 13 6:44 AM Sturgeon Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, August 20 9:17 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, August 28 7:07 PM

Also in August

  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 12–13 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 100% lit, 0 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: August 1–4, August 25–31.

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).

July August 2030 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:50 AM
Set: 9:40 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:55 AM
Set: 10:09 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:00 AM
Set: 10:38 PM
Dark night
4 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:08 PM
Set: 11:11 PM
Dark night
5 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:16 PM
Set: 11:47 PM
6 Tuesday
First Quarter
12:43 PM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:26 PM
Set: –
7 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:35 PM
Set: 12:30 AM
8 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:40 PM
Set: 1:20 AM
9 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:39 PM
Set: 2:18 AM
10 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:30 PM
Set: 3:24 AM
11 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:14 PM
Set: 4:34 AM
12 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:51 PM
Set: 5:45 AM
13 Tuesday
Full Moon
6:44 AM
Sturgeon Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:24 PM
Set: 6:56 AM
14 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:54 PM
Set: 8:05 AM
15 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:23 PM
Set: 9:11 AM
16 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:52 PM
Set: 10:15 AM
17 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:21 PM
Set: 11:17 AM
18 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:53 PM
Set: 12:18 PM
19 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 63% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:27 PM
Set: 1:18 PM
20 Tuesday
Last Quarter
9:17 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:15 PM
21 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:06 AM
Set: 3:10 PM
22 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:50 AM
Set: 4:01 PM
23 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:39 AM
Set: 4:47 PM
24 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:33 AM
Set: 5:29 PM
25 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:30 AM
Set: 6:07 PM
Dark night
26 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:31 AM
Set: 6:41 PM
Dark night
27 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:34 AM
Set: 7:12 PM
Dark night
28 Wednesday
New Moon
7:07 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:38 AM
Set: 7:42 PM
Dark night
29 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:43 AM
Set: 8:11 PM
Dark night
30 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:50 AM
Set: 8:41 PM
Dark night
31 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:58 AM
Set: 9:14 PM
Dark night