Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Friday, May 6 6:29 PM Flower Moon
  • Last Quarter Friday, May 13 8:05 PM
  • New Moon Friday, May 20 4:54 PM
  • First Quarter Saturday, May 28 12:06 PM

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 100% lit, 0 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Total lunar eclipse Friday, May 6, 6:30 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Total solar eclipse Friday, May 20, 4:41 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Ramadan begins Sunday, May 22 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Shavuot Friday, May 27 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: May 15–23.

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).

April May 2050 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:37 PM
Set: 3:36 AM
2 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:34 PM
Set: 4:03 AM
3 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:32 PM
Set: 4:31 AM
4 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:31 PM
Set: 5:00 AM
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:32 PM
Set: 5:32 AM
6 Friday
Full Moon
6:29 PM
Flower Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:34 PM
Set: 6:08 AM
7 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:35 PM
Set: 6:49 AM
8 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:34 PM
Set: 7:36 AM
9 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:29 PM
Set: 8:29 AM
10 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:29 AM
11 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:19 AM
Set: 10:34 AM
12 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:03 AM
Set: 11:41 AM
13 Friday
Last Quarter
8:05 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:43 AM
Set: 12:50 PM
14 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:20 AM
Set: 1:59 PM
15 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:54 AM
Set: 3:09 PM
Dark night
16 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:27 AM
Set: 4:18 PM
Dark night
17 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:01 AM
Set: 5:27 PM
Dark night
18 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:38 AM
Set: 6:36 PM
Dark night
19 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:17 AM
Set: 7:43 PM
Dark night
20 Friday
New Moon
4:54 PM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:01 AM
Set: 8:47 PM
Dark night
21 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:50 AM
Set: 9:45 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:42 AM
Set: 10:37 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:38 AM
Set: 11:23 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:36 AM
Set: –
25 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:34 AM
Set: 12:03 AM
26 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:32 AM
Set: 12:37 AM
27 Friday
Waxing crescent
Shavuot
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:29 PM
Set: 1:08 AM
28 Saturday
First Quarter
12:06 PM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:26 PM
Set: 1:37 AM
29 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:22 PM
Set: 2:05 AM
30 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:20 PM
Set: 2:32 AM
31 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:18 PM
Set: 3:00 AM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday