Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Wednesday, September 4 5:57 PM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, September 11 5:18 PM Harvest Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, September 19 3:58 PM
  • New Moon Friday, September 27 5:55 AM

Also in September

  • Mid-Autumn Festival Thursday, September 12 Chinese calendar
  • Rosh Hashanah Saturday, September 28 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: September 1–2, September 23–30.

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).

August September 2030 October
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:07 AM
Set: 9:49 PM
Dark night
2 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:17 PM
Set: 10:30 PM
Dark night
3 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:26 PM
Set: 11:18 PM
4 Wednesday
First Quarter
5:57 PM
Visible: 47% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:32 PM
Set: –
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:32 PM
Set: 12:13 AM
6 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:24 PM
Set: 1:15 AM
7 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:10 PM
Set: 2:22 AM
8 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:49 PM
Set: 3:31 AM
9 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:23 PM
Set: 4:40 AM
10 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:54 PM
Set: 5:48 AM
11 Wednesday
Full Moon
5:18 PM
Harvest Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:23 PM
Set: 6:54 AM
12 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:52 PM
Set: 7:59 AM
13 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:21 PM
Set: 9:02 AM
14 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:52 PM
Set: 10:04 AM
15 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:26 PM
Set: 11:05 AM
16 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:03 PM
Set: 12:03 PM
17 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:45 PM
Set: 12:59 PM
18 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:32 PM
Set: 1:52 PM
19 Thursday
Last Quarter
3:58 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:40 PM
20 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:23 AM
Set: 3:23 PM
21 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:19 AM
Set: 4:02 PM
22 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:17 AM
Set: 4:37 PM
23 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:18 AM
Set: 5:10 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:21 AM
Set: 5:40 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:26 AM
Set: 6:10 PM
Dark night
26 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:33 AM
Set: 6:40 PM
Dark night
27 Friday
New Moon
5:55 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:41 AM
Set: 7:13 PM
Dark night
28 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Rosh Hashanah
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:52 AM
Set: 7:48 PM
Dark night
29 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:04 AM
Set: 8:28 PM
Dark night
30 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:15 AM
Set: 9:15 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday