Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Wednesday, December 6 5:34 PM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, December 13 3:55 PM
  • Full Moon Thursday, December 21 8:37 PM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Friday, December 29 1:24 PM

Also in December

  • Hanukkah Sunday, December 3 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 54% lit, 6 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Thursday, December 21, 8:47 PM visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 3–9.

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 2056 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:01 AM
Set: 2:08 PM
2 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:10 AM
Set: 2:39 PM
3 Sunday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:20 AM
Set: 3:10 PM
Dark night
4 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:34 AM
Set: 3:45 PM
Dark night
5 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:50 AM
Set: 4:24 PM
Dark night
6 Wednesday
New Moon
5:34 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:07 AM
Set: 5:11 PM
Dark night
7 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:21 AM
Set: 6:05 PM
Dark night
8 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:29 AM
Set: 7:06 PM
Dark night
9 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:28 AM
Set: 8:13 PM
Dark night
10 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:18 AM
Set: 9:21 PM
11 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:58 AM
Set: 10:28 PM
12 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:32 PM
Set: 11:33 PM
13 Wednesday
First Quarter
3:55 PM
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:02 PM
Set: –
14 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:29 PM
Set: 12:35 AM
15 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:55 PM
Set: 1:35 AM
16 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:20 PM
Set: 2:33 AM
17 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:46 PM
Set: 3:31 AM
18 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:15 PM
Set: 4:29 AM
19 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:47 PM
Set: 5:27 AM
20 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:23 PM
Set: 6:25 AM
21 Thursday
Full Moon
8:37 PM
Cold Moon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:04 PM
Set: 7:22 AM
22 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:51 PM
Set: 8:16 AM
23 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:44 PM
Set: 9:06 AM
24 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:42 PM
Set: 9:51 AM
25 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:43 PM
Set: 10:32 AM
26 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:47 PM
Set: 11:08 AM
27 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:51 PM
Set: 11:40 AM
28 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:57 PM
Set: 12:11 PM
29 Friday
Last Quarter
1:24 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:40 PM
30 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:04 AM
Set: 1:10 PM
31 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 29% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:14 AM
Set: 1:41 PM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday