Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Friday, December 4 11:55 AM
  • Full Moon Saturday, December 12 2:54 PM Cold MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, December 20 12:13 PM
  • New Moon Sunday, December 27 3:30 AM

Also in December

  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 97% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Wednesday, December 23 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Partial solar eclipse Sunday, December 27, 3:38 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Eid al-Fitr Monday, December 28 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: December 23–29.

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 2065 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:10 AM
Set: 9:29 PM
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:44 AM
Set: 10:39 PM
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:12 PM
Set: 11:46 PM
4 Friday
First Quarter
11:55 AM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:37 PM
Set: –
5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:01 PM
Set: 12:50 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:25 PM
Set: 1:52 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:50 PM
Set: 2:53 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:17 PM
Set: 3:53 AM
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:49 PM
Set: 4:54 AM
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:25 PM
Set: 5:53 AM
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:07 PM
Set: 6:51 AM
12 Saturday
Full Moon
2:54 PM
Cold Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:56 PM
Set: 7:45 AM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:50 PM
Set: 8:33 AM
14 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:49 PM
Set: 9:15 AM
15 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:51 PM
Set: 9:52 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:54 PM
Set: 10:23 AM
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:57 PM
Set: 10:51 AM
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:00 PM
Set: 11:17 AM
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:42 AM
20 Sunday
Last Quarter
12:13 PM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:05 AM
Set: 12:07 PM
21 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 39% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:13 AM
Set: 12:34 PM
22 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 28% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:23 AM
Set: 1:05 PM
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:37 AM
Set: 1:42 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:53 AM
Set: 2:28 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:08 AM
Set: 3:24 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:16 AM
Set: 4:31 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
New Moon
3:30 AM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:14 AM
Set: 5:46 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:01 AM
Set: 7:03 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:39 AM
Set: 8:17 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:11 AM
Set: 9:28 PM
31 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:38 AM
Set: 10:36 PM
1 Friday
2 Saturday