Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Tuesday, December 1 9:39 AM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, December 9 10:29 AM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, December 16 3:04 AM Cold MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, December 23 12:06 AM
  • New Moon Thursday, December 31 4:49 AM

Also in December

  • Islamic New Year 1466 AH Thursday, December 3 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 14–15 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 97% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Sunday, December 27 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 1–5, December 26–31.

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 2043 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
New Moon
9:39 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:53 AM
Set: 4:50 PM
Dark night
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:52 AM
Set: 5:35 PM
Dark night
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1466 AH
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:45 AM
Set: 6:28 PM
Dark night
4 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:31 AM
Set: 7:27 PM
Dark night
5 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:09 AM
Set: 8:30 PM
Dark night
6 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:42 AM
Set: 9:35 PM
7 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:09 PM
Set: 10:40 PM
8 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:33 PM
Set: 11:46 PM
9 Wednesday
First Quarter
10:29 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:56 PM
Set: –
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:18 PM
Set: 12:53 AM
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:41 PM
Set: 2:01 AM
12 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:08 PM
Set: 3:14 AM
13 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:40 PM
Set: 4:31 AM
14 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:21 PM
Set: 5:52 AM
15 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:14 PM
Set: 7:13 AM
16 Wednesday
Full Moon
3:04 AM
Cold Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:19 PM
Set: 8:28 AM
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:35 PM
Set: 9:31 AM
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:53 PM
Set: 10:20 AM
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:10 PM
Set: 10:58 AM
20 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:22 PM
Set: 11:28 AM
21 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:30 PM
Set: 11:53 AM
22 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:15 PM
23 Wednesday
Last Quarter
12:06 AM
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:34 AM
Set: 12:35 PM
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:37 AM
Set: 12:56 PM
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:39 AM
Set: 1:19 PM
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:41 AM
Set: 1:44 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:44 AM
Set: 2:13 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:46 AM
Set: 2:49 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:46 AM
Set: 3:32 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:41 AM
Set: 4:22 PM
Dark night
31 Thursday
New Moon
4:49 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:29 AM
Set: 5:20 PM
Dark night
1 Friday
2 Saturday