Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Monday, April 7 1:24 PM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Monday, April 14 9:00 AM
  • New Moon Monday, April 21 1:00 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, April 29 3:20 PM

Also in April

  • Eid al-Adha Wednesday, April 2 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Passover Tuesday, April 8 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 13 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 2% lit, 7 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Islamic New Year 1453 AH Wednesday, April 23 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: April 15–23.

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 2031 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:07 PM
Set: 3:39 AM
2 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Eid al-Adha
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:05 PM
Set: 4:13 AM
3 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:05 PM
Set: 4:44 AM
4 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:07 PM
Set: 5:13 AM
5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:10 PM
Set: 5:43 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:15 PM
Set: 6:13 AM
7 Monday
Full Moon
1:24 PM
Pink Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:23 PM
Set: 6:45 AM
8 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:32 PM
Set: 7:20 AM
9 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:41 PM
Set: 8:00 AM
10 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:48 PM
Set: 8:47 AM
11 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:41 AM
12 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:50 AM
Set: 10:41 AM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:45 AM
Set: 11:46 AM
14 Monday
Last Quarter
9:00 AM
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:33 AM
Set: 12:55 PM
15 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:14 AM
Set: 2:03 PM
Dark night
16 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:51 AM
Set: 3:11 PM
Dark night
17 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:24 AM
Set: 4:18 PM
Dark night
18 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:55 AM
Set: 5:24 PM
Dark night
19 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:26 AM
Set: 6:28 PM
Dark night
20 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:57 AM
Set: 7:32 PM
Dark night
21 Monday
New Moon
1:00 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:30 AM
Set: 8:34 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:06 AM
Set: 9:35 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1453 AH
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:45 AM
Set: 10:32 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:28 AM
Set: 11:25 PM
25 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:15 AM
Set: –
26 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:06 AM
Set: 12:14 AM
27 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:00 AM
Set: 12:57 AM
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:56 AM
Set: 1:36 AM
29 Tuesday
First Quarter
3:20 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:53 PM
Set: 2:11 AM
30 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:52 PM
Set: 2:42 AM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday