Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Monday, April 4 5:50 PM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, April 12 10:13 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, April 19 11:08 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, April 26 1:58 PM

Also in April

  • Total lunar eclipse Monday, April 4, 5:52 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Passover Tuesday, April 5 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 10 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Total solar eclipse Tuesday, April 19, 10:55 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 22–23 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 10% lit, 5 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Eid al-Adha Saturday, April 30 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: April 13–21.

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).

March April 2061 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
31 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:52 PM
Set: 6:02 AM
2 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:57 PM
Set: 6:25 AM
3 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:59 PM
Set: 6:46 AM
4 Monday
Full Moon
5:50 PM
Pink Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:01 PM
Set: 7:06 AM
5 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:02 PM
Set: 7:27 AM
6 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:04 PM
Set: 7:49 AM
7 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:07 PM
Set: 8:13 AM
8 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:42 AM
9 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:10 AM
Set: 9:16 AM
10 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 1:10 AM
Set: 9:58 AM
11 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 64% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 2:07 AM
Set: 10:48 AM
12 Tuesday
Last Quarter
10:13 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:57 AM
Set: 11:45 AM
13 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:40 AM
Set: 12:49 PM
Dark night
14 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 4:16 AM
Set: 1:57 PM
Dark night
15 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:47 AM
Set: 3:07 PM
Dark night
16 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 5:14 AM
Set: 4:18 PM
Dark night
17 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:39 AM
Set: 5:31 PM
Dark night
18 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:03 AM
Set: 6:45 PM
Dark night
19 Tuesday
New Moon
11:08 PM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:29 AM
Set: 8:02 PM
Dark night
20 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:57 AM
Set: 9:22 PM
Dark night
21 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:30 AM
Set: 10:44 PM
Dark night
22 Friday
Waxing crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:11 AM
Set: –
23 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:03 AM
Set: 12:04 AM
24 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:04 AM
Set: 1:15 AM
25 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:14 AM
Set: 2:14 AM
26 Tuesday
First Quarter
1:58 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:26 PM
Set: 3:01 AM
27 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:37 PM
Set: 3:38 AM
28 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:45 PM
Set: 4:07 AM
29 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:50 PM
Set: 4:31 AM
30 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Eid al-Adha
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:52 PM
Set: 4:52 AM