Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Sunday, December 3 4:38 AM
  • First Quarter Sunday, December 10 7:08 PM
  • Full Moon Sunday, December 17 11:06 AM Cold MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, December 24 6:23 PM

Also in December

  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 14–15 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 90% lit, 1 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 1–6, December 28–31.

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).

November December 2051 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:47 AM
Set: 4:18 PM
Dark night
2 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:42 AM
Set: 4:59 PM
Dark night
3 Sunday
New Moon
4:38 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:35 AM
Set: 5:43 PM
Dark night
4 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:26 AM
Set: 6:33 PM
Dark night
5 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:14 AM
Set: 7:27 PM
Dark night
6 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:58 AM
Set: 8:24 PM
Dark night
7 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:38 AM
Set: 9:24 PM
8 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:16 AM
Set: 10:26 PM
9 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:51 AM
Set: 11:30 PM
10 Sunday
First Quarter
7:08 PM
Visible: 47% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:26 PM
Set: –
11 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:00 PM
Set: 12:36 AM
12 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:36 PM
Set: 1:43 AM
13 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:14 PM
Set: 2:52 AM
14 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:57 PM
Set: 4:02 AM
15 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:45 PM
Set: 5:12 AM
16 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:40 PM
Set: 6:21 AM
17 Sunday
Full Moon
11:06 AM
Cold Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:39 PM
Set: 7:25 AM
18 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:43 PM
Set: 8:23 AM
19 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:48 PM
Set: 9:13 AM
20 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:52 PM
Set: 9:57 AM
21 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:55 PM
Set: 10:35 AM
22 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:56 PM
Set: 11:09 AM
23 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:54 PM
Set: 11:40 AM
24 Sunday
Last Quarter
6:23 PM
Visible: 53% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:10 PM
25 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:51 AM
Set: 12:40 PM
26 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:47 AM
Set: 1:10 PM
27 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:43 AM
Set: 1:42 PM
28 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:39 AM
Set: 2:17 PM
Dark night
29 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:34 AM
Set: 2:56 PM
Dark night
30 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:28 AM
Set: 3:39 PM
Dark night
31 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:20 AM
Set: 4:27 PM
Dark night
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday