Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Saturday, May 1 8:15 PM
  • First Quarter Sunday, May 9 9:59 PM
  • Full Moon Monday, May 17 7:17 AM Flower MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, May 23 10:56 PM
  • New Moon Monday, May 31 10:03 AM

Also in May

  • Eta Aquariids meteor shower peak on the night of May 5–6 up to 50 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 17% lit, 5 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Monday, May 17, 7:25 AM partly visible from Columbus
  • Annular solar eclipse Monday, May 31, 9:58 AM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: May 1–4, May 26–31.

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).

April May 2049 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
25 Sunday
26 Monday
27 Tuesday
28 Wednesday
29 Thursday
30 Friday
1 Saturday
New Moon
8:15 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:03 AM
Set: 8:28 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:41 AM
Set: 9:29 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:23 AM
Set: 10:26 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:10 AM
Set: 11:18 PM
Dark night
5 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:01 AM
Set: –
6 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:55 AM
Set: 12:04 AM
7 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:51 AM
Set: 12:45 AM
8 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:48 AM
Set: 1:20 AM
9 Sunday
First Quarter
9:59 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:46 PM
Set: 1:52 AM
10 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:45 PM
Set: 2:21 AM
11 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:44 PM
Set: 2:48 AM
12 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:45 PM
Set: 3:15 AM
13 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:48 PM
Set: 3:43 AM
14 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:53 PM
Set: 4:12 AM
15 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:02 PM
Set: 4:46 AM
16 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 8:11 PM
Set: 5:25 AM
17 Monday
Full Moon
7:17 AM
Flower Moon
Supermoon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 9:20 PM
Set: 6:11 AM
18 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:24 PM
Set: 7:05 AM
19 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:21 PM
Set: 8:08 AM
20 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:17 AM
21 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:09 AM
Set: 10:29 AM
22 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:51 AM
Set: 11:40 AM
23 Sunday
Last Quarter
10:56 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:27 AM
Set: 12:51 PM
24 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:00 AM
Set: 1:59 PM
25 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:30 AM
Set: 3:06 PM
26 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:00 AM
Set: 4:11 PM
Dark night
27 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:31 AM
Set: 5:15 PM
Dark night
28 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:03 AM
Set: 6:19 PM
Dark night
29 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:39 AM
Set: 7:20 PM
Dark night
30 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:19 AM
Set: 8:18 PM
Dark night
31 Monday
New Moon
10:03 AM
Annular solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:04 AM
Set: 9:12 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday