Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Last Quarter Wednesday, May 3 3:31 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, May 10 6:31 AM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, May 17 9:31 AM
  • Full Moon Thursday, May 25 1:37 PM Flower Moon

Also in May

  • Eta Aquariids meteor shower peak on the night of May 6–7 up to 50 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 19% lit, 6 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Ramadan begins Thursday, May 11 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Shavuot Wednesday, May 17 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 5–12.

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 2051 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
1 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:37 AM
Set: 10:50 AM
2 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:21 AM
Set: 11:51 AM
3 Wednesday
Last Quarter
3:31 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:02 AM
Set: 12:55 PM
4 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:41 AM
Set: 2:01 PM
5 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:17 AM
Set: 3:09 PM
Dark night
6 Saturday
Waning crescent
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:53 AM
Set: 4:19 PM
Dark night
7 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:29 AM
Set: 5:31 PM
Dark night
8 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:08 AM
Set: 6:43 PM
Dark night
9 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:49 AM
Set: 7:56 PM
Dark night
10 Wednesday
New Moon
6:31 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:35 AM
Set: 9:06 PM
Dark night
11 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:26 AM
Set: 10:11 PM
Dark night
12 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:22 AM
Set: 11:10 PM
Dark night
13 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:21 AM
Set: –
14 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:23 AM
Set: 12:01 AM
15 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:24 AM
Set: 12:45 AM
16 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:24 PM
Set: 1:23 AM
17 Wednesday
First Quarter
9:31 AM
Shavuot
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:22 PM
Set: 1:57 AM
18 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:19 PM
Set: 2:28 AM
19 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:16 PM
Set: 2:57 AM
20 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:11 PM
Set: 3:26 AM
21 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:07 PM
Set: 3:54 AM
22 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:04 PM
Set: 4:24 AM
23 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:00 PM
Set: 4:57 AM
24 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:57 PM
Set: 5:33 AM
25 Thursday
Full Moon
1:37 PM
Flower Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:52 PM
Set: 6:13 AM
26 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:45 PM
Set: 6:59 AM
27 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:35 PM
Set: 7:49 AM
28 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:21 PM
Set: 8:45 AM
29 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:45 AM
30 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:04 AM
Set: 10:47 AM
31 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:42 AM
Set: 11:52 AM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday