Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Wednesday, December 3 9:11 AM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, December 10 4:21 AM
  • New Moon Wednesday, December 17 10:36 AM
  • First Quarter Thursday, December 25 2:45 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 13% lit, 10 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Sunday, December 14 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 13–21.

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 2036 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:15 PM
Set: 5:10 AM
2 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:53 PM
Set: 6:16 AM
3 Wednesday
Full Moon
9:11 AM
Cold Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:38 PM
Set: 7:22 AM
4 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:30 PM
Set: 8:28 AM
5 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:30 PM
Set: 9:30 AM
6 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:34 PM
Set: 10:27 AM
7 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:43 PM
Set: 11:17 AM
8 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:52 PM
Set: 12:01 PM
9 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:39 PM
10 Wednesday
Last Quarter
4:21 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:02 AM
Set: 1:14 PM
11 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:10 AM
Set: 1:47 PM
12 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:17 AM
Set: 2:19 PM
13 Saturday
Waning crescent
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:23 AM
Set: 2:52 PM
Dark night
14 Sunday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:28 AM
Set: 3:27 PM
Dark night
15 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:32 AM
Set: 4:04 PM
Dark night
16 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:34 AM
Set: 4:45 PM
Dark night
17 Wednesday
New Moon
10:36 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:33 AM
Set: 5:31 PM
Dark night
18 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:28 AM
Set: 6:20 PM
Dark night
19 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:17 AM
Set: 7:13 PM
Dark night
20 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:01 AM
Set: 8:08 PM
Dark night
21 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:40 AM
Set: 9:04 PM
Dark night
22 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:14 AM
Set: 10:01 PM
23 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:45 AM
Set: 10:57 PM
24 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:14 PM
Set: 11:54 PM
25 Thursday
First Quarter
2:45 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:42 PM
Set: –
26 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:09 PM
Set: 12:52 AM
27 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:39 PM
Set: 1:51 AM
28 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:10 PM
Set: 2:52 AM
29 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:46 PM
Set: 3:55 AM
30 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:27 PM
Set: 5:00 AM
31 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:15 PM
Set: 6:06 AM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday