Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Thursday, February 4 6:01 PM
  • Full Moon Thursday, February 11 5:50 PM Snow MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, February 18 9:17 AM
  • New Moon Friday, February 26 7:41 AM

Also in February

  • Total lunar eclipse Thursday, February 11, 5:45 PM partly visible from Columbus
  • Lantern Festival Thursday, February 11 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: February 20–28.

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).

January February 2055 March
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:17 AM
Set: 10:36 PM
2 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:45 AM
Set: 11:33 PM
3 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:14 AM
Set: –
4 Thursday
First Quarter
6:01 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:45 AM
Set: 12:30 AM
5 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:20 PM
Set: 1:29 AM
6 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:59 PM
Set: 2:30 AM
7 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:45 PM
Set: 3:31 AM
8 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:38 PM
Set: 4:32 AM
9 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:39 PM
Set: 5:30 AM
10 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:47 PM
Set: 6:25 AM
11 Thursday
Full Moon
5:50 PM
Snow Moon
Supermoon
Total lunar eclipse
Lantern Festival
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:59 PM
Set: 7:15 AM
12 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:14 PM
Set: 7:59 AM
13 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:28 PM
Set: 8:40 AM
14 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:40 PM
Set: 9:17 AM
15 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:51 PM
Set: 9:53 AM
16 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:59 PM
Set: 10:29 AM
17 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:06 AM
18 Thursday
Last Quarter
9:17 AM
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:05 AM
Set: 11:45 AM
19 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 38% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:08 AM
Set: 12:27 PM
20 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 29% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:07 AM
Set: 1:12 PM
Dark night
21 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:02 AM
Set: 2:01 PM
Dark night
22 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:51 AM
Set: 2:54 PM
Dark night
23 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:35 AM
Set: 3:48 PM
Dark night
24 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:15 AM
Set: 4:44 PM
Dark night
25 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:50 AM
Set: 5:41 PM
Dark night
26 Friday
New Moon
7:41 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:22 AM
Set: 6:37 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:52 AM
Set: 7:33 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:20 AM
Set: 8:29 PM
Dark night
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday