Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Friday, April 2 7:43 AM
  • First Quarter Saturday, April 10 3:29 AM
  • Full Moon Saturday, April 17 9:08 PM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, April 24 5:14 PM

Also in April

  • Passover Saturday, April 17 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 18 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 22–23 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 74% lit, 3 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 1–4, April 26–30.

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 2049 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:26 AM
Set: 7:26 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
New Moon
7:43 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:57 AM
Set: 8:33 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:30 AM
Set: 9:39 PM
Dark night
4 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:06 AM
Set: 10:42 PM
Dark night
5 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:46 AM
Set: 11:42 PM
6 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:30 AM
Set: –
7 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:18 AM
Set: 12:37 AM
8 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:10 AM
Set: 1:26 AM
9 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:05 PM
Set: 2:10 AM
10 Saturday
First Quarter
3:29 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:01 PM
Set: 2:48 AM
11 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:59 PM
Set: 3:22 AM
12 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:58 PM
Set: 3:52 AM
13 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:58 PM
Set: 4:21 AM
14 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:59 PM
Set: 4:48 AM
15 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:01 PM
Set: 5:16 AM
16 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:06 PM
Set: 5:45 AM
17 Saturday
Full Moon
9:08 PM
Pink Moon
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:13 PM
Set: 6:16 AM
18 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:22 PM
Set: 6:52 AM
19 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:30 PM
Set: 7:33 AM
20 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:36 PM
Set: 8:22 AM
21 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:18 AM
22 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:35 AM
Set: 10:21 AM
23 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 64% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:27 AM
Set: 11:29 AM
24 Saturday
Last Quarter
5:14 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:12 AM
Set: 12:40 PM
25 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:51 AM
Set: 1:50 PM
26 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:25 AM
Set: 2:59 PM
Dark night
27 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:57 AM
Set: 4:06 PM
Dark night
28 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:27 AM
Set: 5:13 PM
Dark night
29 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:57 AM
Set: 6:19 PM
Dark night
30 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:29 AM
Set: 7:24 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday