Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Monday, July 5 1:40 PM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, July 13 11:12 AM Buck Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, July 20 9:26 AM
  • New Moon Tuesday, July 27 8:52 AM

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: July 1, July 15, July 24–31.

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
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:37 AM
Set: –
Dark night
2 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:42 AM
Set: 12:00 AM
3 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:45 AM
Set: 12:24 AM
4 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:45 PM
Set: 12:46 AM
5 Monday
First Quarter
1:40 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:44 PM
Set: 1:06 AM
6 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:44 PM
Set: 1:26 AM
7 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:44 PM
Set: 1:47 AM
8 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:47 PM
Set: 2:11 AM
9 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:51 PM
Set: 2:39 AM
10 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:55 PM
Set: 3:13 AM
11 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:56 PM
Set: 3:55 AM
12 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 8:52 PM
Set: 4:47 AM
13 Tuesday
Full Moon
11:12 AM
Buck Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 9:40 PM
Set: 5:48 AM
14 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 10:21 PM
Set: 6:57 AM
15 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:54 PM
Set: 8:09 AM
Dark night
16 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:23 PM
Set: 9:22 AM
17 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:48 PM
Set: 10:35 AM
18 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:47 AM
19 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:13 AM
Set: 12:59 PM
20 Tuesday
Last Quarter
9:26 AM
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:38 AM
Set: 2:12 PM
21 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:06 AM
Set: 3:26 PM
22 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:37 AM
Set: 4:41 PM
23 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:15 AM
Set: 5:55 PM
24 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:02 AM
Set: 7:03 PM
Dark night
25 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 3:58 AM
Set: 8:02 PM
Dark night
26 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:02 AM
Set: 8:50 PM
Dark night
27 Tuesday
New Moon
8:52 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:11 AM
Set: 9:29 PM
Dark night
28 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:20 AM
Set: 10:00 PM
Dark night
29 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:27 AM
Set: 10:26 PM
Dark night
30 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:31 AM
Set: 10:48 PM
Dark night
31 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:33 AM
Set: 11:09 PM
Dark night