Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Friday, March 1 2:38 AM
  • First Quarter Thursday, March 7 8:19 PM
  • Full Moon Friday, March 15 5:56 AM Worm Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, March 23 10:11 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, March 30 2:29 PM

Also in March

  • Holi Friday, March 15 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Purim Friday, March 15 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Total solar eclipse Saturday, March 30, 3:25 PM visible from Columbus as a partial eclipse, 71.8% of the Sun covered

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: March 1–3, March 25–31.

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).

February March 2052 April
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
25 Sunday
26 Monday
27 Tuesday
28 Wednesday
29 Thursday
1 Friday
New Moon
2:38 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:03 AM
Set: 7:09 PM
Dark night
2 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:39 AM
Set: 8:18 PM
Dark night
3 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:16 AM
Set: 9:28 PM
Dark night
4 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:55 AM
Set: 10:38 PM
5 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:37 AM
Set: 11:46 PM
6 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:23 AM
Set: –
7 Thursday
First Quarter
8:19 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:14 AM
Set: 12:52 AM
8 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:09 PM
Set: 1:53 AM
9 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:07 PM
Set: 2:48 AM
10 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:08 PM
Set: 4:38 AM
11 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:10 PM
Set: 5:22 AM
12 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:12 PM
Set: 6:01 AM
13 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:13 PM
Set: 6:36 AM
14 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:13 PM
Set: 7:09 AM
15 Friday
Full Moon
5:56 AM
Worm Moon
Holi
Purim
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:11 PM
Set: 7:40 AM
16 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:09 PM
Set: 8:11 AM
17 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:06 PM
Set: 8:42 AM
18 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:02 PM
Set: 9:15 AM
19 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:57 PM
Set: 9:49 AM
20 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:26 AM
21 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:50 AM
Set: 11:07 AM
22 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:41 AM
Set: 11:52 AM
23 Saturday
Last Quarter
10:11 AM
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:30 AM
Set: 12:41 PM
24 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 39% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:16 AM
Set: 1:35 PM
25 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:00 AM
Set: 2:32 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:40 AM
Set: 3:34 PM
Dark night
27 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:19 AM
Set: 4:38 PM
Dark night
28 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:56 AM
Set: 5:46 PM
Dark night
29 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:33 AM
Set: 6:55 PM
Dark night
30 Saturday
New Moon
2:29 PM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:10 AM
Set: 8:06 PM
Dark night
31 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:49 AM
Set: 9:18 PM
Dark night
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday