Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Tuesday, December 6 2:23 AM Cold MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, December 13 10:30 AM
  • New Moon Wednesday, December 21 1:48 PM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, December 28 7:22 PM

Also in December

  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 43% lit, 6 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Saturday, December 17 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Eid al-Fitr Friday, December 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: December 17–24.

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).

November December 2033 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:07 PM
Set: 1:55 AM
2 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:45 PM
Set: 3:04 AM
3 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:26 PM
Set: 4:15 AM
4 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:12 PM
Set: 5:26 AM
5 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:03 PM
Set: 6:35 AM
6 Tuesday
Full Moon
2:23 AM
Cold Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:58 PM
Set: 7:41 AM
7 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:58 PM
Set: 8:41 AM
8 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:00 PM
Set: 9:34 AM
9 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:02 PM
Set: 10:20 AM
10 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:03 PM
Set: 11:00 AM
11 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:02 PM
Set: 11:35 AM
12 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:07 PM
13 Tuesday
Last Quarter
10:30 AM
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:00 AM
Set: 12:38 PM
14 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:57 AM
Set: 1:07 PM
15 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:52 AM
Set: 1:36 PM
16 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:48 AM
Set: 2:07 PM
17 Saturday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:43 AM
Set: 2:40 PM
Dark night
18 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:39 AM
Set: 3:16 PM
Dark night
19 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:35 AM
Set: 3:57 PM
Dark night
20 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:30 AM
Set: 4:42 PM
Dark night
21 Wednesday
New Moon
1:48 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:23 AM
Set: 5:33 PM
Dark night
22 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:13 AM
Set: 6:28 PM
Dark night
23 Friday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:59 AM
Set: 7:27 PM
Dark night
24 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:42 AM
Set: 8:30 PM
Dark night
25 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:22 AM
Set: 9:34 PM
26 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:58 AM
Set: 10:40 PM
27 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:34 AM
Set: 11:46 PM
28 Wednesday
First Quarter
7:22 PM
Visible: 47% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:09 PM
Set: –
29 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:45 PM
Set: 12:53 AM
30 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:23 PM
Set: 2:01 AM
31 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:05 PM
Set: 3:09 AM