Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Friday, January 7 8:40 PM Wolf Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, January 16 1:20 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, January 22 11:58 PM
  • First Quarter Saturday, January 29 3:49 PM

Also in January

  • Quadrantids meteor shower peak on the night of January 3–4 up to 110 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 85% lit, 1 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Lunar New Year Sunday, January 23 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: January 18–25.

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).

December January 2050 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:42 PM
Set: 1:45 AM
2 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:19 PM
Set: 2:50 AM
3 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:00 PM
Set: 3:52 AM
4 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:46 PM
Set: 4:51 AM
5 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:35 PM
Set: 5:46 AM
6 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:29 PM
Set: 6:36 AM
7 Friday
Full Moon
8:40 PM
Wolf Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:25 PM
Set: 7:19 AM
8 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:22 PM
Set: 7:58 AM
9 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:19 PM
Set: 8:32 AM
10 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:16 PM
Set: 9:02 AM
11 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:13 PM
Set: 9:30 AM
12 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:10 PM
Set: 9:57 AM
13 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:07 PM
Set: 10:24 AM
14 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:51 AM
15 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 56% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:06 AM
Set: 11:20 AM
16 Sunday
Last Quarter
1:20 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:06 AM
Set: 11:52 AM
17 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:07 AM
Set: 12:30 PM
18 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:10 AM
Set: 1:13 PM
Dark night
19 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:13 AM
Set: 2:05 PM
Dark night
20 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:14 AM
Set: 3:06 PM
Dark night
21 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:10 AM
Set: 4:14 PM
Dark night
22 Saturday
New Moon
11:58 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:01 AM
Set: 5:27 PM
Dark night
23 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Lunar New Year
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:45 AM
Set: 6:43 PM
Dark night
24 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:25 AM
Set: 7:58 PM
Dark night
25 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:01 AM
Set: 9:12 PM
Dark night
26 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:35 AM
Set: 10:24 PM
27 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:09 AM
Set: 11:33 PM
28 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:44 AM
Set: –
29 Saturday
First Quarter
3:49 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:21 AM
Set: 12:40 AM
30 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:01 PM
Set: 1:45 AM
31 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:45 PM
Set: 2:46 AM
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday