Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Saturday, April 6 5:30 AM
  • Full Moon Saturday, April 13 10:30 PM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Monday, April 22 2:06 AM
  • New Moon Sunday, April 28 11:23 PM

Also in April

  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Saturday, April 13, 10:16 PM visible from Columbus
  • Passover Sunday, April 14 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 48% lit, 5 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Easter Monday, April 21 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Ramadan begins Tuesday, April 30 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 1, April 23–30.

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 2052 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:31 AM
Set: 10:30 PM
Dark night
2 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:17 AM
Set: 11:39 PM
3 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:07 AM
Set: –
4 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:03 AM
Set: 12:44 AM
5 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:01 PM
Set: 1:44 AM
6 Saturday
First Quarter
5:30 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:02 PM
Set: 2:36 AM
7 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:04 PM
Set: 3:22 AM
8 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:06 PM
Set: 4:02 AM
9 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:06 PM
Set: 4:38 AM
10 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:05 PM
Set: 5:11 AM
11 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:04 PM
Set: 5:42 AM
12 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:01 PM
Set: 6:13 AM
13 Saturday
Full Moon
10:30 PM
Pink Moon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:58 PM
Set: 6:43 AM
14 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:54 PM
Set: 7:15 AM
15 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:49 PM
Set: 7:49 AM
16 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:43 PM
Set: 8:25 AM
17 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:35 PM
Set: 9:04 AM
18 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:47 AM
19 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:25 AM
Set: 10:35 AM
20 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:12 AM
Set: 11:26 AM
21 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Lyrids meteor shower
Easter
Visible: 56% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:55 AM
Set: 12:21 PM
22 Monday
Last Quarter
2:06 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:36 AM
Set: 1:19 PM
23 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:14 AM
Set: 2:20 PM
Dark night
24 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:51 AM
Set: 3:25 PM
Dark night
25 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:26 AM
Set: 4:31 PM
Dark night
26 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:02 AM
Set: 5:40 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:40 AM
Set: 6:52 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
New Moon
11:23 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:20 AM
Set: 8:05 PM
Dark night
29 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:05 AM
Set: 9:17 PM
Dark night
30 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:54 AM
Set: 10:27 PM
Dark night
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday