Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Tuesday, May 6 11:42 PM Flower MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, May 13 3:09 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, May 21 3:20 AM
  • First Quarter Thursday, May 29 7:21 AM

Also in May

  • Eta Aquariids meteor shower peak on the night of May 5–6 up to 50 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 100% lit, 0 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Tuesday, May 6, 11:51 PM visible from Columbus
  • Annular solar eclipse Wednesday, May 21, 3:15 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Shavuot Wednesday, May 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: May 15–24.

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 2031 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:51 PM
Set: 3:12 AM
2 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:53 PM
Set: 3:41 AM
3 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:56 PM
Set: 4:10 AM
4 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:02 PM
Set: 4:41 AM
5 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:11 PM
Set: 5:14 AM
6 Tuesday
Full Moon
11:42 PM
Flower Moon
Supermoon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:21 PM
Set: 5:53 AM
7 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:31 PM
Set: 6:37 AM
8 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:37 PM
Set: 7:29 AM
9 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:37 PM
Set: 8:29 AM
10 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:35 AM
11 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:29 AM
Set: 10:45 AM
12 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 63% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:14 AM
Set: 11:55 AM
13 Tuesday
Last Quarter
3:09 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:52 AM
Set: 1:04 PM
14 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:27 AM
Set: 2:11 PM
15 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:58 AM
Set: 3:16 PM
Dark night
16 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:29 AM
Set: 4:20 PM
Dark night
17 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:59 AM
Set: 5:23 PM
Dark night
18 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:31 AM
Set: 6:25 PM
Dark night
19 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:05 AM
Set: 7:26 PM
Dark night
20 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:42 AM
Set: 8:24 PM
Dark night
21 Wednesday
New Moon
3:20 AM
Annular solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:24 AM
Set: 9:18 PM
Dark night
22 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:09 AM
Set: 10:09 PM
Dark night
23 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:59 AM
Set: 10:54 PM
Dark night
24 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:52 AM
Set: 11:34 PM
Dark night
25 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:47 AM
Set: –
26 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:44 AM
Set: 12:10 AM
27 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:41 AM
Set: 12:43 AM
28 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Shavuot
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:39 PM
Set: 1:12 AM
29 Thursday
First Quarter
7:21 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:38 PM
Set: 1:41 AM
30 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:39 PM
Set: 2:09 AM
31 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:43 PM
Set: 2:38 AM