Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Friday, August 6 1:13 AM
  • First Quarter Saturday, August 14 3:53 AM
  • Full Moon Friday, August 20 9:49 PM Sturgeon MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Friday, August 27 3:36 PM

Also in August

  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 11–12 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 33% lit, 6 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 2–11, August 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).

July August 2032 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:35 AM
Set: 5:22 PM
2 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:25 AM
Set: 6:10 PM
Dark night
3 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:18 AM
Set: 6:53 PM
Dark night
4 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:13 AM
Set: 7:31 PM
Dark night
5 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:09 AM
Set: 8:05 PM
Dark night
6 Friday
New Moon
1:13 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:05 AM
Set: 8:37 PM
Dark night
7 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:02 AM
Set: 9:06 PM
Dark night
8 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:58 AM
Set: 9:34 PM
Dark night
9 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:54 AM
Set: 10:03 PM
Dark night
10 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:50 AM
Set: 10:32 PM
Dark night
11 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:47 AM
Set: 11:02 PM
Dark night
12 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:45 PM
Set: 11:36 PM
13 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 43% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:44 PM
Set: –
14 Saturday
First Quarter
3:53 AM
Visible: 54% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:44 PM
Set: 12:14 AM
15 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:44 PM
Set: 12:58 AM
16 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:41 PM
Set: 1:49 AM
17 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:36 PM
Set: 2:47 AM
18 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:25 PM
Set: 3:52 AM
19 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:11 PM
Set: 5:03 AM
20 Friday
Full Moon
9:49 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:53 PM
Set: 6:16 AM
21 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:31 PM
Set: 7:31 AM
22 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:09 PM
Set: 8:45 AM
23 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:46 PM
Set: 9:57 AM
24 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:24 PM
Set: 11:08 AM
25 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:04 PM
Set: 12:16 PM
26 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:47 PM
Set: 1:21 PM
27 Friday
Last Quarter
3:36 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:22 PM
28 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:33 AM
Set: 3:17 PM
29 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:23 AM
Set: 4:07 PM
30 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:15 AM
Set: 4:52 PM
31 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:09 AM
Set: 5:31 PM
Dark night
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday