Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Friday, April 6 5:19 AM
  • Full Moon Thursday, April 12 10:36 PM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Friday, April 20 10:45 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, April 28 10:55 AM

Also in April

  • Eid al-Adha Monday, April 9 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Passover Saturday, April 14 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 15 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 22–23 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 26% lit, 6 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Islamic New Year 1486 AH Monday, 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 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).

March April 2063 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:13 AM
Set: 11:08 PM
2 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:45 AM
Set: –
3 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:26 AM
Set: 12:19 AM
4 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:17 AM
Set: 1:27 AM
5 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:19 AM
Set: 2:29 AM
6 Friday
First Quarter
5:19 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:30 PM
Set: 3:23 AM
7 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:46 PM
Set: 4:06 AM
8 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:03 PM
Set: 4:42 AM
9 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Eid al-Adha
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:19 PM
Set: 5:12 AM
10 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:34 PM
Set: 5:38 AM
11 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:48 PM
Set: 6:03 AM
12 Thursday
Full Moon
10:36 PM
Pink Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:02 PM
Set: 6:28 AM
13 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:17 PM
Set: 6:54 AM
14 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:30 PM
Set: 7:24 AM
15 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:41 PM
Set: 7:59 AM
16 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:41 AM
17 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:46 AM
Set: 9:31 AM
18 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:42 AM
Set: 10:27 AM
19 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:29 AM
Set: 11:28 AM
20 Friday
Last Quarter
10:45 AM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:07 AM
Set: 12:31 PM
21 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:37 AM
Set: 1:33 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
Waning crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 4:03 AM
Set: 2:35 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:26 AM
Set: 3:36 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:46 AM
Set: 4:36 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:06 AM
Set: 5:37 PM
Dark night
26 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:27 AM
Set: 6:40 PM
Dark night
27 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:49 AM
Set: 7:46 PM
Dark night
28 Saturday
New Moon
10:55 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:15 AM
Set: 8:55 PM
Dark night
29 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 6:46 AM
Set: 10:07 PM
Dark night
30 Monday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1486 AH
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:24 AM
Set: 11:17 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday