Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Saturday, December 4 12:43 AM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, December 11 10:07 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, December 18 3:18 AM
  • First Quarter Saturday, December 25 5:30 PM

Also in December

  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 14–15 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 15% lit, 10 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Wednesday, December 15 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 14–21.

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).

November December 2055 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:01 PM
Set: 4:49 AM
2 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:33 PM
Set: 5:47 AM
3 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:08 PM
Set: 6:46 AM
4 Saturday
Full Moon
12:43 AM
Cold Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:49 PM
Set: 7:45 AM
5 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:36 PM
Set: 8:43 AM
6 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:29 PM
Set: 9:38 AM
7 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:28 PM
Set: 10:29 AM
8 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:31 PM
Set: 11:15 AM
9 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:37 PM
Set: 11:56 AM
10 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:45 PM
Set: 12:33 PM
11 Saturday
Last Quarter
10:07 AM
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:08 PM
12 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 38% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:54 AM
Set: 1:41 PM
13 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:03 AM
Set: 2:14 PM
14 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:14 AM
Set: 2:48 PM
Dark night
15 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:26 AM
Set: 3:25 PM
Dark night
16 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:37 AM
Set: 4:07 PM
Dark night
17 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:48 AM
Set: 4:54 PM
Dark night
18 Saturday
New Moon
3:18 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:54 AM
Set: 5:47 PM
Dark night
19 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:55 AM
Set: 6:45 PM
Dark night
20 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:47 AM
Set: 7:46 PM
Dark night
21 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:32 AM
Set: 8:48 PM
Dark night
22 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:10 AM
Set: 9:49 PM
23 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:44 AM
Set: 10:49 PM
24 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:13 PM
Set: 11:47 PM
25 Saturday
First Quarter
5:30 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:41 PM
Set: –
26 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:07 PM
Set: 12:44 AM
27 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:34 PM
Set: 1:41 AM
28 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:02 PM
Set: 2:37 AM
29 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:32 PM
Set: 3:35 AM
30 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:06 PM
Set: 4:34 AM
31 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:44 PM
Set: 5:33 AM
1 Saturday