Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Saturday, March 6 9:49 AM
  • Full Moon Saturday, March 13 3:58 AM Worm MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Friday, March 19 11:21 PM
  • New Moon Sunday, March 28 3:03 AM

Also in March

  • Holi Saturday, March 13 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Purim Sunday, March 14 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Ramadan begins Monday, March 29 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: March 1, March 21–30.

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).

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:48 AM
Set: 9:26 PM
Dark night
2 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:16 AM
Set: 10:23 PM
3 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:46 AM
Set: 11:20 PM
4 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:18 AM
Set: –
5 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:55 AM
Set: 12:19 AM
6 Saturday
First Quarter
9:49 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:37 AM
Set: 1:18 AM
7 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:25 PM
Set: 2:18 AM
8 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:20 PM
Set: 3:15 AM
9 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:23 PM
Set: 4:10 AM
10 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:32 PM
Set: 5:01 AM
11 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:44 PM
Set: 5:47 AM
12 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:59 PM
Set: 6:30 AM
13 Saturday
Full Moon
3:58 AM
Worm Moon
Supermoon
Holi
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:14 PM
Set: 7:09 AM
14 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Purim
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:28 PM
Set: 8:46 AM
15 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:40 PM
Set: 9:23 AM
16 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:50 PM
Set: 10:01 AM
17 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:40 AM
18 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:57 AM
Set: 11:22 AM
19 Friday
Last Quarter
11:21 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:59 AM
Set: 12:08 PM
20 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:57 AM
Set: 12:57 PM
21 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:49 AM
Set: 1:49 PM
Dark night
22 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:35 AM
Set: 2:43 PM
Dark night
23 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 5:16 AM
Set: 3:39 PM
Dark night
24 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:52 AM
Set: 4:35 PM
Dark night
25 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:25 AM
Set: 5:31 PM
Dark night
26 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:55 AM
Set: 6:27 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:23 AM
Set: 7:24 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
New Moon
3:03 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:51 AM
Set: 8:20 PM
Dark night
29 Monday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:19 AM
Set: 9:17 PM
Dark night
30 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:48 AM
Set: 10:15 PM
Dark night
31 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:20 AM
Set: 11:14 PM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday