Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Wednesday, April 6 11:15 AM
  • Full Moon Thursday, April 14 3:19 PM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Friday, April 22 7:43 AM
  • New Moon Thursday, April 28 10:48 PM

Also in April

  • Islamic New Year 1455 AH Friday, April 1 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Total lunar eclipse Thursday, April 14, 3:13 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Passover Thursday, April 14 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 17 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 49% lit, 4 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: April 1, April 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).

March April 2033 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
31 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1455 AH
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:30 AM
Set: 10:33 PM
Dark night
2 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:15 AM
Set: 11:40 PM
3 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:04 AM
Set: –
4 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:56 AM
Set: 12:42 AM
5 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:51 AM
Set: 1:37 AM
6 Wednesday
First Quarter
11:15 AM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:47 PM
Set: 2:26 AM
7 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:44 PM
Set: 3:09 AM
8 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:41 PM
Set: 3:46 AM
9 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:37 PM
Set: 4:20 AM
10 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:33 PM
Set: 4:52 AM
11 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:28 PM
Set: 5:21 AM
12 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:24 PM
Set: 5:50 AM
13 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:20 PM
Set: 6:19 AM
14 Thursday
Full Moon
3:19 PM
Pink Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:16 PM
Set: 6:49 AM
15 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:13 PM
Set: 7:22 AM
16 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:10 PM
Set: 7:57 AM
17 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:06 PM
Set: 8:36 AM
18 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:20 AM
19 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:00 AM
Set: 10:10 AM
20 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:52 AM
Set: 11:04 AM
21 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:40 AM
Set: 12:03 PM
22 Friday
Last Quarter
7:43 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:25 AM
Set: 1:07 PM
23 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:07 AM
Set: 2:13 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:46 AM
Set: 3:21 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:23 AM
Set: 4:32 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:01 AM
Set: 5:43 PM
Dark night
27 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:39 AM
Set: 6:56 PM
Dark night
28 Thursday
New Moon
10:48 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:19 AM
Set: 8:08 PM
Dark night
29 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:03 AM
Set: 9:18 PM
Dark night
30 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:50 AM
Set: 10:24 PM
Dark night