Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Tuesday, February 2 8:18 AM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, February 9 10:40 AM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, February 17 3:50 PM Snow Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, February 25 2:38 AM

Also in February

  • Lunar New Year Tuesday, February 2 Chinese calendar
  • Lantern Festival Tuesday, February 16 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: February 1–4, February 26–28.

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).

January February 2049 March
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:43 AM
Set: 5:12 PM
Dark night
2 Tuesday
New Moon
8:18 AM
Lunar New Year
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:23 AM
Set: 6:27 PM
Dark night
3 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:58 AM
Set: 7:41 PM
Dark night
4 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:30 AM
Set: 8:52 PM
Dark night
5 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:01 AM
Set: 10:01 PM
6 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:31 AM
Set: 11:07 PM
7 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:03 AM
Set: –
8 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:37 AM
Set: 12:12 AM
9 Tuesday
First Quarter
10:40 AM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:14 AM
Set: 1:13 AM
10 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 11:56 AM
Set: 2:12 AM
11 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:42 PM
Set: 3:06 AM
12 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:33 PM
Set: 3:55 AM
13 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:27 PM
Set: 4:39 AM
14 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:24 PM
Set: 5:18 AM
15 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:22 PM
Set: 5:53 AM
16 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Lantern Festival
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:22 PM
Set: 6:24 AM
17 Wednesday
Full Moon
3:50 PM
Snow Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:22 PM
Set: 6:52 AM
18 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:23 PM
Set: 7:20 AM
19 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:24 PM
Set: 7:46 AM
20 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:27 PM
Set: 8:14 AM
21 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:32 PM
Set: 8:43 AM
22 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:38 PM
Set: 9:16 AM
23 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:53 AM
24 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:44 AM
Set: 10:37 AM
25 Thursday
Last Quarter
2:38 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:49 AM
Set: 11:29 AM
26 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:50 AM
Set: 12:29 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:45 AM
Set: 1:37 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:34 AM
Set: 2:49 PM
Dark night
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday