Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Saturday, December 5 10:31 AM
  • First Quarter Saturday, December 12 2:31 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, December 20 1:41 AM Cold MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Monday, December 28 3:34 AM

Also in December

  • Total solar eclipse Saturday, December 5, 10:34 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 69% lit, 4 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Sunday, December 20, 1:26 AM visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 1–8, December 30–31.

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 2048 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:55 AM
Set: 2:06 PM
Dark night
2 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:04 AM
Set: 2:42 PM
Dark night
3 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:16 AM
Set: 3:24 PM
Dark night
4 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:29 AM
Set: 4:15 PM
Dark night
5 Saturday
New Moon
10:31 AM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:39 AM
Set: 5:16 PM
Dark night
6 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:43 AM
Set: 6:25 PM
Dark night
7 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:37 AM
Set: 7:39 PM
Dark night
8 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:22 AM
Set: 8:53 PM
Dark night
9 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:01 AM
Set: 10:06 PM
10 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:33 AM
Set: 11:15 PM
11 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 43% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:03 PM
Set: –
12 Saturday
First Quarter
2:31 AM
Visible: 54% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:32 PM
Set: 12:22 AM
13 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:00 PM
Set: 1:26 AM
14 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:29 PM
Set: 2:29 AM
15 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:01 PM
Set: 3:31 AM
16 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:36 PM
Set: 4:31 AM
17 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:16 PM
Set: 5:30 AM
18 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:01 PM
Set: 6:25 AM
19 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:51 PM
Set: 7:16 AM
20 Sunday
Full Moon
1:41 AM
Cold Moon
Micromoon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:44 PM
Set: 8:02 AM
21 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:41 PM
Set: 8:42 AM
22 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:39 PM
Set: 9:17 AM
23 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:37 PM
Set: 9:49 AM
24 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:36 PM
Set: 10:17 AM
25 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:36 PM
Set: 10:44 AM
26 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:37 PM
Set: 11:10 AM
27 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:37 AM
28 Monday
Last Quarter
3:34 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:39 AM
Set: 12:05 PM
29 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:45 AM
Set: 12:37 PM
30 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:53 AM
Set: 1:14 PM
Dark night
31 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:03 AM
Set: 1:59 PM
Dark night
1 Friday
2 Saturday