Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Thursday, November 5 11:39 PM
  • First Quarter Thursday, November 12 3:31 PM
  • Full Moon Friday, November 20 6:21 AM Beaver Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, November 28 11:35 AM

Also in November

  • Diwali Thursday, November 5 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 92% lit, 1 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Monday, 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 2–9.

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 2048 December
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:59 AM
Set: 2:41 PM
2 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:02 AM
Set: 3:09 PM
Dark night
3 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:09 AM
Set: 3:39 PM
Dark night
4 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:18 AM
Set: 4:13 PM
Dark night
5 Thursday
New Moon
11:39 PM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:30 AM
Set: 4:52 PM
Dark night
6 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:43 AM
Set: 5:39 PM
Dark night
7 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:55 AM
Set: 6:34 PM
Dark night
8 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:01 AM
Set: 7:38 PM
Dark night
9 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:58 AM
Set: 8:47 PM
Dark night
10 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:46 AM
Set: 9:59 PM
11 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:27 PM
Set: 11:10 PM
12 Thursday
First Quarter
3:31 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:01 PM
Set: –
13 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:32 PM
Set: 12:18 AM
14 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:00 PM
Set: 1:25 AM
15 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:28 PM
Set: 2:30 AM
16 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Leonids meteor shower
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:56 PM
Set: 3:33 AM
17 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:26 PM
Set: 4:36 AM
18 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:59 PM
Set: 5:37 AM
19 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:36 PM
Set: 6:38 AM
20 Friday
Full Moon
6:21 AM
Beaver Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:18 PM
Set: 7:36 AM
21 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:05 PM
Set: 8:30 AM
22 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:56 PM
Set: 9:20 AM
23 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:51 PM
Set: 10:03 AM
24 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:48 PM
Set: 10:42 AM
25 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:46 PM
Set: 11:16 AM
26 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:45 PM
Set: 11:46 AM
27 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:45 PM
Set: 12:14 PM
28 Saturday
Last Quarter
11:35 AM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:41 PM
29 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:46 AM
Set: 1:08 PM
30 Monday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:49 AM
Set: 1:36 PM
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday