Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Saturday, January 1 5:18 AM
  • First Quarter Friday, January 7 10:36 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, January 15 8:08 AM Wolf Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, January 23 12:48 PM
  • New Moon Sunday, January 30 5:01 PM

Also in January

  • Quadrantids meteor shower peak on the night of January 2–3 up to 110 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 7% lit, 11 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Eid al-Fitr Sunday, January 2 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Lunar New Year Monday, January 31 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: January 1–3, January 26–31.

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).

December January 2033 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
New Moon
5:18 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:44 AM
Set: 6:03 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Quadrantids meteor shower
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:32 AM
Set: 7:11 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:16 AM
Set: 8:21 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:56 AM
Set: 9:31 PM
5 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:33 AM
Set: 10:41 PM
6 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:09 AM
Set: 11:50 PM
7 Friday
First Quarter
10:36 PM
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:44 AM
Set: –
8 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:21 PM
Set: 12:58 AM
9 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:00 PM
Set: 2:04 AM
10 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:42 PM
Set: 3:09 AM
11 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:28 PM
Set: 4:11 AM
12 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:18 PM
Set: 5:09 AM
13 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:12 PM
Set: 6:02 AM
14 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:08 PM
Set: 6:50 AM
15 Saturday
Full Moon
8:08 AM
Wolf Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:05 PM
Set: 7:32 AM
16 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:03 PM
Set: 8:10 AM
17 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:00 PM
Set: 8:44 AM
18 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:57 PM
Set: 9:15 AM
19 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:53 PM
Set: 9:44 AM
20 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:48 PM
Set: 10:12 AM
21 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:44 PM
Set: 10:41 AM
22 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:11 AM
23 Sunday
Last Quarter
12:48 PM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:41 AM
Set: 11:43 AM
24 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:39 AM
Set: 12:19 PM
25 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:37 AM
Set: 1:00 PM
26 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:35 AM
Set: 1:47 PM
Dark night
27 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:33 AM
Set: 2:40 PM
Dark night
28 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:28 AM
Set: 3:41 PM
Dark night
29 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:20 AM
Set: 4:48 PM
Dark night
30 Sunday
New Moon
5:01 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:07 AM
Set: 5:58 PM
Dark night
31 Monday
Waxing crescent
Lunar New Year
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:50 AM
Set: 7:11 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday