Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Tuesday, February 8 10:42 PM Snow Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, February 15 9:38 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, February 22 10:21 PM

Also in February

  • Lantern Festival Monday, February 7 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: February 17–25.

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).

January February 2039 March
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:05 PM
Set: 1:14 AM
2 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:34 PM
Set: 2:13 AM
3 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:08 PM
Set: 3:12 AM
4 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:48 PM
Set: 4:10 AM
5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:35 PM
Set: 5:07 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:28 PM
Set: 6:00 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Lantern Festival
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:29 PM
Set: 6:49 AM
8 Tuesday
Full Moon
10:42 PM
Snow Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:34 PM
Set: 7:32 AM
9 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:41 PM
Set: 8:10 AM
10 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:50 PM
Set: 8:43 AM
11 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:59 PM
Set: 9:14 AM
12 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:09 PM
Set: 9:43 AM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:19 PM
Set: 10:12 AM
14 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:42 AM
15 Tuesday
Last Quarter
9:38 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:30 AM
Set: 11:16 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:42 AM
Set: 11:54 AM
17 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:53 AM
Set: 12:38 PM
Dark night
18 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:01 AM
Set: 1:30 PM
Dark night
19 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 5:04 AM
Set: 2:30 PM
Dark night
20 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:58 AM
Set: 3:35 PM
Dark night
21 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:43 AM
Set: 4:43 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
New Moon
10:21 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:21 AM
Set: 5:51 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:54 AM
Set: 6:57 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:22 AM
Set: 8:01 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:48 AM
Set: 9:02 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:13 AM
Set: 10:02 PM
27 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:38 AM
Set: 11:02 PM
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:04 AM
Set: –
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday