Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Sunday, May 1 10:09 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, May 8 7:22 AM Flower MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, May 14 11:19 PM
  • New Moon Sunday, May 22 9:40 PM
  • First Quarter Monday, May 30 10:25 PM

Also in May

  • Eta Aquariids meteor shower peak on the night of May 6–7 up to 50 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 95% lit, 0 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Dragon Boat Festival Friday, May 27 Chinese calendar
  • Shavuot Sunday, May 29 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: May 15–25.

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).

April May 2039 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
First Quarter
10:09 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:45 PM
Set: 2:57 AM
2 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:49 PM
Set: 3:34 AM
3 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:56 PM
Set: 4:08 AM
4 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:06 PM
Set: 4:38 AM
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:17 PM
Set: 5:07 AM
6 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:30 PM
Set: 5:36 AM
7 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:47 PM
Set: 6:07 AM
8 Sunday
Full Moon
7:22 AM
Flower Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 9:05 PM
Set: 6:41 AM
9 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:23 PM
Set: 7:20 AM
10 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:37 PM
Set: 8:07 AM
11 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:02 AM
12 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:43 AM
Set: 10:05 AM
13 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:39 AM
Set: 11:12 AM
14 Saturday
Last Quarter
11:19 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:25 AM
Set: 12:21 PM
15 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:02 AM
Set: 1:28 PM
Dark night
16 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:33 AM
Set: 2:33 PM
Dark night
17 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:00 AM
Set: 3:35 PM
Dark night
18 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:25 AM
Set: 4:36 PM
Dark night
19 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:49 AM
Set: 5:35 PM
Dark night
20 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:13 AM
Set: 6:34 PM
Dark night
21 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:38 AM
Set: 7:34 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
New Moon
9:40 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:05 AM
Set: 8:33 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:37 AM
Set: 9:32 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:13 AM
Set: 10:29 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:54 AM
Set: 11:23 PM
Dark night
26 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:42 AM
Set: –
27 Friday
Waxing crescent
Dragon Boat Festival
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:36 AM
Set: 12:13 AM
28 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:35 AM
Set: 12:56 AM
29 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Shavuot
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:37 AM
Set: 1:35 AM
30 Monday
First Quarter
10:25 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:42 PM
Set: 2:08 AM
31 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:48 PM
Set: 2:39 AM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday