Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Saturday, April 5 10:17 AM Pink MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, April 13 7:11 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, April 19 10:22 PM
  • First Quarter Saturday, April 26 10:21 PM

Also in April

  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Saturday, April 5, 10:29 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Passover Saturday, April 5 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 6 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Total solar eclipse Saturday, April 19, 10:16 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 22–23 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 11% lit, 5 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 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).

March April 2042 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:20 PM
Set: 5:52 AM
2 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:21 PM
Set: 6:16 AM
3 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:20 PM
Set: 6:36 AM
4 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:19 PM
Set: 6:56 AM
5 Saturday
Full Moon
10:17 AM
Pink Moon
Micromoon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:19 PM
Set: 7:15 AM
6 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:19 PM
Set: 7:36 AM
7 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:22 PM
Set: 7:58 AM
8 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:26 PM
Set: 8:24 AM
9 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:55 AM
10 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:31 AM
Set: 9:34 AM
11 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:34 AM
Set: 10:21 AM
12 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:33 AM
Set: 11:19 AM
13 Sunday
Last Quarter
7:11 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:24 AM
Set: 12:26 PM
Dark night
14 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 4:07 AM
Set: 1:39 PM
Dark night
15 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:43 AM
Set: 2:54 PM
Dark night
16 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 5:14 AM
Set: 4:11 PM
Dark night
17 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:41 AM
Set: 5:27 PM
Dark night
18 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:07 AM
Set: 6:45 PM
Dark night
19 Saturday
New Moon
10:22 PM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:33 AM
Set: 8:03 PM
Dark night
20 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:02 AM
Set: 9:22 PM
Dark night
21 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:34 AM
Set: 10:42 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:13 AM
Set: 11:58 PM
23 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:00 AM
Set: –
24 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 9:55 AM
Set: 1:06 AM
25 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:57 AM
Set: 2:03 AM
26 Saturday
First Quarter
10:21 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:02 PM
Set: 2:50 AM
27 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:08 PM
Set: 3:26 AM
28 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:11 PM
Set: 3:56 AM
29 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:13 PM
Set: 4:21 AM
30 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:13 PM
Set: 4:42 AM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday