Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Thursday, April 7 4:15 AM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, April 14 2:25 PM
  • New Moon Thursday, April 21 6:29 AM
  • First Quarter Thursday, April 28 6:10 PM

Also in April

  • Passover Thursday, April 7 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 10 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 3% lit, 7 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 16–23.

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 2050 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
31 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:56 PM
Set: 4:07 AM
2 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:53 PM
Set: 4:38 AM
3 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:49 PM
Set: 5:07 AM
4 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:46 PM
Set: 5:35 AM
5 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:44 PM
Set: 6:02 AM
6 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:43 PM
Set: 6:30 AM
7 Thursday
Full Moon
4:15 AM
Pink Moon
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:42 PM
Set: 7:00 AM
8 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:43 PM
Set: 7:33 AM
9 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:44 PM
Set: 8:10 AM
10 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:43 PM
Set: 8:52 AM
11 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:40 AM
12 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:40 AM
Set: 10:35 AM
13 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:33 AM
Set: 11:36 AM
14 Thursday
Last Quarter
2:25 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:21 AM
Set: 12:41 PM
15 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:03 AM
Set: 1:49 PM
16 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 29% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:42 AM
Set: 2:59 PM
Dark night
17 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:19 AM
Set: 4:10 PM
Dark night
18 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:53 AM
Set: 5:22 PM
Dark night
19 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:28 AM
Set: 6:33 PM
Dark night
20 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:04 AM
Set: 7:44 PM
Dark night
21 Thursday
New Moon
6:29 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:43 AM
Set: 8:54 PM
Dark night
22 Friday
Waxing crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:25 AM
Set: 10:01 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:11 AM
Set: 11:03 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:02 AM
Set: 11:58 PM
25 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:56 AM
Set: –
26 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:52 AM
Set: 12:47 AM
27 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:49 AM
Set: 1:29 AM
28 Thursday
First Quarter
6:10 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:46 PM
Set: 2:06 AM
29 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:43 PM
Set: 2:38 AM
30 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:40 PM
Set: 3:08 AM