Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Monday, December 3 12:56 AM
  • Full Moon Monday, December 10 7:49 PM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, December 19 12:05 AM
  • New Moon Tuesday, December 25 8:24 PM

Also in December

  • Partial lunar eclipse Monday, December 10, 7:52 PM visible from Columbus
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 90% lit, 1 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Saturday, December 22 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Total solar eclipse Tuesday, December 25, 8:13 PM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 22–28.

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).

November December 2057 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
25 Sunday
26 Monday
27 Tuesday
28 Wednesday
29 Thursday
30 Friday
1 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:33 PM
Set: 10:47 PM
2 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:08 PM
Set: 11:57 PM
3 Monday
First Quarter
12:56 AM
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:39 PM
Set: –
4 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:06 PM
Set: 1:05 AM
5 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:31 PM
Set: 2:09 AM
6 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:57 PM
Set: 3:12 AM
7 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:23 PM
Set: 4:14 AM
8 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:52 PM
Set: 5:16 AM
9 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:23 PM
Set: 6:17 AM
10 Monday
Full Moon
7:49 PM
Cold Moon
Partial lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:00 PM
Set: 7:17 AM
11 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:42 PM
Set: 8:15 AM
12 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:29 PM
Set: 9:09 AM
13 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:22 PM
Set: 9:57 AM
14 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:18 PM
Set: 10:40 AM
15 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:17 PM
Set: 11:17 AM
16 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:18 PM
Set: 11:50 AM
17 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:19 PM
Set: 12:19 PM
18 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:46 PM
19 Wednesday
Last Quarter
12:05 AM
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:21 AM
Set: 1:12 PM
20 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:25 AM
Set: 1:38 PM
21 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:31 AM
Set: 2:05 PM
22 Saturday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:41 AM
Set: 2:37 PM
Dark night
23 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:55 AM
Set: 3:14 PM
Dark night
24 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:10 AM
Set: 3:59 PM
Dark night
25 Tuesday
New Moon
8:24 PM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:26 AM
Set: 4:54 PM
Dark night
26 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:36 AM
Set: 5:59 PM
Dark night
27 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:36 AM
Set: 7:12 PM
Dark night
28 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:26 AM
Set: 8:28 PM
Dark night
29 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:06 AM
Set: 9:42 PM
30 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:40 AM
Set: 10:53 PM
31 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:09 PM
Set: –
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday