Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, January 5 10:41 PM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, January 13 6:24 AM Wolf MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, January 19 10:27 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, January 27 12:42 PM

Also in January

  • Quadrantids meteor shower peak on the night of January 3–4 up to 110 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 33% lit, 7 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Partial solar eclipse Wednesday, January 27, 1:15 PM visible from Columbus as a partial eclipse, 26.6% of the Sun covered
  • Lunar New Year Thursday, January 28 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: January 1, January 22–30.

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).

December January 2055 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
31 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:15 AM
Set: 9:00 PM
Dark night
2 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:48 AM
Set: 9:57 PM
3 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:18 AM
Set: 10:53 PM
4 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:47 AM
Set: 11:49 PM
5 Tuesday
First Quarter
10:41 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:15 PM
Set: –
6 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:44 PM
Set: 12:46 AM
7 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:14 PM
Set: 1:44 AM
8 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: 2:43 AM
9 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:25 PM
Set: 3:45 AM
10 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:09 PM
Set: 4:47 AM
11 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:59 PM
Set: 5:50 AM
12 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:58 PM
Set: 6:52 AM
13 Wednesday
Full Moon
6:24 AM
Wolf Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:03 PM
Set: 7:49 AM
14 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:13 PM
Set: 8:41 AM
15 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:25 PM
Set: 9:27 AM
16 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:37 PM
Set: 10:08 AM
17 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:47 PM
Set: 10:45 AM
18 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:56 PM
Set: 11:20 AM
19 Tuesday
Last Quarter
10:27 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:54 AM
20 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:04 AM
Set: 12:29 PM
21 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:09 AM
Set: 1:05 PM
22 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:13 AM
Set: 1:45 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:14 AM
Set: 2:27 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:12 AM
Set: 3:14 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:05 AM
Set: 4:05 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:53 AM
Set: 4:59 PM
Dark night
27 Wednesday
New Moon
12:42 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:36 AM
Set: 5:54 PM
Dark night
28 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Lunar New Year
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:15 AM
Set: 6:51 PM
Dark night
29 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:49 AM
Set: 7:48 PM
Dark night
30 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:20 AM
Set: 8:44 PM
Dark night
31 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:49 AM
Set: 9:40 PM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday