Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Saturday, March 1 3:03 AM
  • First Quarter Saturday, March 8 8:27 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, March 16 1:11 PM Worm Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, March 23 9:48 PM
  • New Moon Sunday, March 30 2:48 PM

Also in March

  • Purim Sunday, March 16 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Holi Monday, March 17 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: March 1–3, March 25–31.

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).

February March 2014 April
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
23 Sunday
24 Monday
25 Tuesday
26 Wednesday
27 Thursday
28 Friday
1 Saturday
New Moon
3:03 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:59 AM
Set: 7:10 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:35 AM
Set: 8:20 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:11 AM
Set: 9:28 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:47 AM
Set: 10:34 PM
5 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:26 AM
Set: 11:36 PM
6 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:06 AM
Set: –
7 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:49 AM
Set: 12:34 AM
8 Saturday
First Quarter
8:27 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:36 AM
Set: 1:28 AM
9 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:25 PM
Set: 3:18 AM
10 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:17 PM
Set: 4:03 AM
11 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:11 PM
Set: 4:43 AM
12 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:06 PM
Set: 5:20 AM
13 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:02 PM
Set: 5:53 AM
14 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:59 PM
Set: 6:25 AM
15 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:57 PM
Set: 6:55 AM
16 Sunday
Full Moon
1:11 PM
Worm Moon
Purim
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:56 PM
Set: 7:25 AM
17 Monday
Waning gibbous
Holi
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:56 PM
Set: 7:56 AM
18 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:58 PM
Set: 8:28 AM
19 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:00 PM
Set: 9:03 AM
20 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:41 AM
21 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:03 AM
Set: 10:25 AM
22 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:04 AM
Set: 11:15 AM
23 Sunday
Last Quarter
9:48 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:03 AM
Set: 12:11 PM
24 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:58 AM
Set: 1:12 PM
25 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:48 AM
Set: 2:18 PM
Dark night
26 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:33 AM
Set: 3:27 PM
Dark night
27 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:15 AM
Set: 4:37 PM
Dark night
28 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:53 AM
Set: 5:48 PM
Dark night
29 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:29 AM
Set: 6:57 PM
Dark night
30 Sunday
New Moon
2:48 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:05 AM
Set: 8:06 PM
Dark night
31 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:41 AM
Set: 9:13 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday