Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Friday, December 7 8:07 PM
  • Full Moon Friday, December 14 7:35 PM Cold MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Friday, December 21 11:31 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, December 29 9:33 AM

Also in December

  • Eid al-Fitr Saturday, December 1 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 14–15 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 100% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Wednesday, December 26 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 1–3, December 24–31.

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).

November December 2035 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
25 Sunday
26 Monday
27 Tuesday
28 Wednesday
29 Thursday
30 Friday
1 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:53 AM
Set: 6:56 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:42 AM
Set: 7:45 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:26 AM
Set: 8:36 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:07 AM
Set: 9:30 PM
5 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:44 AM
Set: 10:26 PM
6 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:18 PM
Set: 11:23 PM
7 Friday
First Quarter
8:07 PM
Visible: 47% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:50 PM
Set: –
8 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:21 PM
Set: 12:21 AM
9 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:53 PM
Set: 1:22 AM
10 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:25 PM
Set: 2:24 AM
11 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:01 PM
Set: 3:30 AM
12 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:40 PM
Set: 4:37 AM
13 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:26 PM
Set: 5:48 AM
14 Friday
Full Moon
7:35 PM
Cold Moon
Supermoon
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:18 PM
Set: 6:58 AM
15 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:18 PM
Set: 8:06 AM
16 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:24 PM
Set: 9:09 AM
17 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:33 PM
Set: 10:04 AM
18 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:42 PM
Set: 10:52 AM
19 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:51 PM
Set: 11:34 AM
20 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:57 PM
Set: 12:11 PM
21 Friday
Last Quarter
11:31 AM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:44 PM
22 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 39% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:01 AM
Set: 1:16 PM
23 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:02 AM
Set: 1:48 PM
24 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:03 AM
Set: 2:20 PM
Dark night
25 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:02 AM
Set: 2:53 PM
Dark night
26 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:59 AM
Set: 3:30 PM
Dark night
27 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:55 AM
Set: 4:09 PM
Dark night
28 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:48 AM
Set: 4:53 PM
Dark night
29 Saturday
New Moon
9:33 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:38 AM
Set: 5:40 PM
Dark night
30 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:24 AM
Set: 6:30 PM
Dark night
31 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:07 AM
Set: 7:24 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday