Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Monday, December 2 6:57 AM Cold MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, December 10 3:30 AM
  • New Moon Monday, December 16 6:40 PM
  • First Quarter Monday, December 23 8:52 PM

Also in December

  • Hanukkah Friday, December 13 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 14–15 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 6% lit, 11 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Partial solar eclipse Monday, December 16, 6:49 PM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 13–19.

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 2047 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:25 PM
Set: 6:55 AM
2 Monday
Full Moon
6:57 AM
Cold Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:11 PM
Set: 7:50 AM
3 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:03 PM
Set: 8:41 AM
4 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:00 PM
Set: 9:27 AM
5 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:00 PM
Set: 10:07 AM
6 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:03 PM
Set: 10:42 AM
7 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:06 PM
Set: 11:13 AM
8 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:11 PM
Set: 11:41 AM
9 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:08 PM
10 Tuesday
Last Quarter
3:30 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:17 AM
Set: 12:34 PM
11 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:24 AM
Set: 1:02 PM
12 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:35 AM
Set: 1:34 PM
13 Friday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:49 AM
Set: 2:10 PM
Dark night
14 Saturday
Waning crescent
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:05 AM
Set: 2:55 PM
Dark night
15 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:20 AM
Set: 3:48 PM
Dark night
16 Monday
New Moon
6:40 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:30 AM
Set: 4:52 PM
Dark night
17 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:30 AM
Set: 6:03 PM
Dark night
18 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:20 AM
Set: 7:17 PM
Dark night
19 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:01 AM
Set: 8:30 PM
Dark night
20 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:34 AM
Set: 9:39 PM
21 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:03 AM
Set: 10:45 PM
22 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:29 AM
Set: 11:48 PM
23 Monday
First Quarter
8:52 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:54 AM
Set: –
24 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:18 PM
Set: 12:50 AM
25 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:45 PM
Set: 1:50 AM
26 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:13 PM
Set: 2:49 AM
27 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:46 PM
Set: 3:49 AM
28 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:23 PM
Set: 4:47 AM
29 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:07 PM
Set: 5:44 AM
30 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:57 PM
Set: 6:36 AM
31 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:52 PM
Set: 7:24 AM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday