Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Thursday, January 3 9:51 PM
  • First Quarter Friday, January 11 9:07 AM
  • Full Moon Saturday, January 19 10:56 AM Wolf Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, January 26 1:15 PM

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 0% lit, 11 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Ramadan begins Saturday, January 5 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 1–6, January 28–31.

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).

December January 2030 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:21 AM
Set: 2:55 PM
Dark night
2 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:26 AM
Set: 3:58 PM
Dark night
3 Thursday
New Moon
9:51 PM
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:23 AM
Set: 5:07 PM
Dark night
4 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:11 AM
Set: 6:18 PM
Dark night
5 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:51 AM
Set: 7:28 PM
Dark night
6 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:25 AM
Set: 8:36 PM
Dark night
7 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:54 AM
Set: 9:40 PM
8 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:21 AM
Set: 10:43 PM
9 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:46 AM
Set: 11:43 PM
10 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:12 AM
Set: –
11 Friday
First Quarter
9:07 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:39 AM
Set: 12:43 AM
12 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:09 PM
Set: 1:41 AM
13 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:42 PM
Set: 2:40 AM
14 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:21 PM
Set: 3:38 AM
15 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:05 PM
Set: 4:33 AM
16 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:56 PM
Set: 5:26 AM
17 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:53 PM
Set: 6:14 AM
18 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:54 PM
Set: 6:57 AM
19 Saturday
Full Moon
10:56 AM
Wolf Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:59 PM
Set: 7:35 AM
20 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:05 PM
Set: 8:09 AM
21 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:11 PM
Set: 8:40 AM
22 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:19 PM
Set: 9:10 AM
23 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:27 PM
Set: 9:38 AM
24 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:36 PM
Set: 10:08 AM
25 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:40 AM
26 Saturday
Last Quarter
1:15 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:47 AM
Set: 11:15 AM
27 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 39% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:58 AM
Set: 11:57 AM
28 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 29% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:08 AM
Set: 12:47 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:13 AM
Set: 1:44 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:12 AM
Set: 2:48 PM
Dark night
31 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:03 AM
Set: 3:57 PM
Dark night
1 Friday
2 Saturday