Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Thursday, May 2 10:14 AM
  • First Quarter Friday, May 10 1:12 PM
  • Full Moon Friday, May 17 7:20 AM Flower MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Friday, May 24 12:59 AM

Also in May

  • Islamic New Year 1452 AH Friday, May 3 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Eta Aquariids meteor shower peak on the night of May 5–6 up to 50 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 12% lit, 5 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: May 1–5, May 26–31.

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).

April May 2030 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:44 AM
Set: 7:56 PM
Dark night
2 Thursday
New Moon
10:14 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:16 AM
Set: 8:54 PM
Dark night
3 Friday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1452 AH
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:52 AM
Set: 9:50 PM
Dark night
4 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:33 AM
Set: 10:43 PM
Dark night
5 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:19 AM
Set: 11:32 PM
Dark night
6 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:10 AM
Set: –
7 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:05 AM
Set: 12:16 AM
8 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:04 AM
Set: 12:55 AM
9 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:05 PM
Set: 1:30 AM
10 Friday
First Quarter
1:12 PM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:07 PM
Set: 2:02 AM
11 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:12 PM
Set: 2:32 AM
12 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:18 PM
Set: 3:01 AM
13 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:27 PM
Set: 3:31 AM
14 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:39 PM
Set: 4:02 AM
15 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:54 PM
Set: 4:38 AM
16 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 8:10 PM
Set: 5:19 AM
17 Friday
Full Moon
7:20 AM
Flower Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 9:24 PM
Set: 6:07 AM
18 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:30 PM
Set: 7:05 AM
19 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:28 PM
Set: 8:10 AM
20 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:20 AM
21 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:15 AM
Set: 10:31 AM
22 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:55 AM
Set: 11:40 AM
23 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 56% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:28 AM
Set: 12:47 PM
24 Friday
Last Quarter
12:59 AM
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:58 AM
Set: 1:50 PM
25 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:25 AM
Set: 2:52 PM
26 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:52 AM
Set: 3:52 PM
Dark night
27 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:18 AM
Set: 4:51 PM
Dark night
28 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:47 AM
Set: 5:50 PM
Dark night
29 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:18 AM
Set: 6:48 PM
Dark night
30 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 4:52 AM
Set: 7:44 PM
Dark night
31 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:31 AM
Set: 8:39 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday