Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Thursday, April 3 2:24 AM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Friday, April 11 2:08 AM
  • New Moon Friday, April 18 2:51 PM
  • First Quarter Friday, April 25 7:04 AM

Also in April

  • Passover Thursday, April 3 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 6 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Ramadan begins Sunday, April 20 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 22–23 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 21% lit, 4 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 12–20.

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 2053 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:32 PM
Set: 6:23 AM
2 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:35 PM
Set: 6:57 AM
3 Thursday
Full Moon
2:24 AM
Pink Moon
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:37 PM
Set: 7:31 AM
4 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:37 PM
Set: 8:04 AM
5 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:35 PM
Set: 8:39 AM
6 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:31 PM
Set: 9:17 AM
7 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:56 AM
8 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:25 AM
Set: 10:39 AM
9 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:15 AM
Set: 11:25 AM
10 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 56% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:01 AM
Set: 12:15 PM
11 Friday
Last Quarter
2:08 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:45 AM
Set: 1:07 PM
12 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:24 AM
Set: 2:02 PM
Dark night
13 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 28% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:02 AM
Set: 3:00 PM
Dark night
14 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:37 AM
Set: 3:59 PM
Dark night
15 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:11 AM
Set: 5:01 PM
Dark night
16 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:44 AM
Set: 6:05 PM
Dark night
17 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:19 AM
Set: 7:10 PM
Dark night
18 Friday
New Moon
2:51 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:55 AM
Set: 8:18 PM
Dark night
19 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:35 AM
Set: 9:27 PM
Dark night
20 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:18 AM
Set: 10:35 PM
Dark night
21 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:07 AM
Set: 11:41 PM
22 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:02 AM
Set: –
23 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:01 AM
Set: 12:43 AM
24 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:04 PM
Set: 1:38 AM
25 Friday
First Quarter
7:04 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:09 PM
Set: 2:27 AM
26 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:15 PM
Set: 3:11 AM
27 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:19 PM
Set: 3:49 AM
28 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:23 PM
Set: 4:25 AM
29 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:25 PM
Set: 4:58 AM
30 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:26 PM
Set: 5:31 AM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday