Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Thursday, May 7 1:03 PM
  • First Quarter Thursday, May 14 9:58 AM
  • Full Moon Thursday, May 21 11:17 AM Flower Moon
  • Last Quarter Friday, May 29 11:06 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 2% lit, 6 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Eid al-Fitr Saturday, May 9 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 1–9, May 23, May 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).

April May 2054 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:30 AM
Set: 2:33 PM
Dark night
2 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:02 AM
Set: 3:30 PM
Dark night
3 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:33 AM
Set: 4:28 PM
Dark night
4 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:03 AM
Set: 5:27 PM
Dark night
5 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:34 AM
Set: 6:28 PM
Dark night
6 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:07 AM
Set: 7:31 PM
Dark night
7 Thursday
New Moon
1:03 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:43 AM
Set: 8:35 PM
Dark night
8 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:22 AM
Set: 9:40 PM
Dark night
9 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:08 AM
Set: 10:44 PM
Dark night
10 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:59 AM
Set: 11:45 PM
11 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:56 AM
Set: –
12 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:59 AM
Set: 12:41 AM
13 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:04 PM
Set: 1:31 AM
14 Thursday
First Quarter
9:58 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:12 PM
Set: 2:16 AM
15 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:20 PM
Set: 2:56 AM
16 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:27 PM
Set: 3:33 AM
17 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:34 PM
Set: 4:08 AM
18 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:40 PM
Set: 4:42 AM
19 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:45 PM
Set: 5:16 AM
20 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:49 PM
Set: 5:53 AM
21 Thursday
Full Moon
11:17 AM
Flower Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:50 PM
Set: 6:31 AM
22 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:48 PM
Set: 7:13 AM
23 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:42 PM
Set: 7:58 AM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:31 PM
Set: 8:47 AM
25 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:38 AM
26 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:15 AM
Set: 10:32 AM
27 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:55 AM
Set: 11:27 AM
28 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:30 AM
Set: 12:22 PM
29 Friday
Last Quarter
11:06 AM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:03 AM
Set: 1:18 PM
30 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:34 AM
Set: 2:15 PM
31 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:03 AM
Set: 3:13 PM
Dark night
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday