Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Sunday, November 4 1:56 PM
  • First Quarter Sunday, November 11 10:25 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, November 18 2:07 PM Beaver Moon
  • Last Quarter Monday, November 26 4:10 PM

Also in November

  • Partial solar eclipse Sunday, November 4, 2:14 PM visible from Columbus as a partial eclipse, 49.8% of the Sun covered
  • Diwali Sunday, November 4 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Leonids meteor shower peak on the night of November 16–17 up to 15 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 98% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Total lunar eclipse Sunday, November 18, 2:03 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Hanukkah Friday, November 30 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: November 1–8, November 30.

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).

October November 2040 December
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:30 AM
Set: 5:14 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:34 AM
Set: 5:37 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:40 AM
Set: 6:02 PM
Dark night
4 Sunday
New Moon
1:56 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:48 AM
Set: 5:30 PM
Dark night
5 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:00 AM
Set: 6:03 PM
Dark night
6 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:14 AM
Set: 6:44 PM
Dark night
7 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:27 AM
Set: 7:34 PM
Dark night
8 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:34 AM
Set: 8:35 PM
Dark night
9 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:32 PM
Set: 9:44 PM
10 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:20 PM
Set: 10:58 PM
11 Sunday
First Quarter
10:25 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:59 PM
Set: –
12 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:31 PM
Set: 12:12 AM
13 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:59 PM
Set: 1:24 AM
14 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:24 PM
Set: 2:35 AM
15 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:49 PM
Set: 3:44 AM
16 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Leonids meteor shower
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:14 PM
Set: 4:52 AM
17 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:41 PM
Set: 6:00 AM
18 Sunday
Full Moon
2:07 PM
Beaver Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:12 PM
Set: 7:08 AM
19 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:48 PM
Set: 8:14 AM
20 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:30 PM
Set: 9:18 AM
21 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:18 PM
Set: 10:17 AM
22 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:12 PM
Set: 11:09 AM
23 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:10 PM
Set: 11:54 AM
24 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:11 PM
Set: 12:31 PM
25 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:12 PM
Set: 1:02 PM
26 Monday
Last Quarter
4:10 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:29 PM
27 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:13 AM
Set: 1:53 PM
28 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:14 AM
Set: 2:16 PM
29 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:16 AM
Set: 2:38 PM
30 Friday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:20 AM
Set: 3:01 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday