Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Sunday, May 5 3:06 PM
  • Full Moon Monday, May 13 3:01 PM Flower MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, May 21 2:17 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, May 28 6:52 AM

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 53% lit, 2 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Eid al-Fitr Wednesday, May 29 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: May 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).

April May 2052 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:49 AM
Set: 11:31 PM
2 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:49 AM
Set: –
3 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:51 AM
Set: 12:29 AM
4 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:55 AM
Set: 1:19 AM
5 Sunday
First Quarter
3:06 PM
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:58 PM
Set: 2:02 AM
6 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:00 PM
Set: 2:40 AM
7 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:00 PM
Set: 3:14 AM
8 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:58 PM
Set: 3:46 AM
9 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:56 PM
Set: 4:16 AM
10 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:52 PM
Set: 4:46 AM
11 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:48 PM
Set: 5:17 AM
12 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:44 PM
Set: 5:50 AM
13 Monday
Full Moon
3:01 PM
Flower Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:38 PM
Set: 6:25 AM
14 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:31 PM
Set: 7:03 AM
15 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:22 PM
Set: 7:45 AM
16 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:10 PM
Set: 8:31 AM
17 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:54 PM
Set: 9:21 AM
18 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:14 AM
19 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:35 AM
Set: 11:10 AM
20 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:14 AM
Set: 12:10 PM
21 Tuesday
Last Quarter
2:17 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:50 AM
Set: 1:11 PM
22 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:24 AM
Set: 2:14 PM
23 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:59 AM
Set: 3:20 PM
Dark night
24 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:34 AM
Set: 4:28 PM
Dark night
25 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:12 AM
Set: 5:39 PM
Dark night
26 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:53 AM
Set: 6:51 PM
Dark night
27 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:39 AM
Set: 8:03 PM
Dark night
28 Tuesday
New Moon
6:52 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:31 AM
Set: 9:11 PM
Dark night
29 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:30 AM
Set: 10:14 PM
Dark night
30 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:33 AM
Set: 11:09 PM
Dark night
31 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:38 AM
Set: 11:57 PM
1 Saturday