Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Saturday, February 4 6:07 AM
  • First Quarter Sunday, February 12 11:20 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, February 19 1:53 PM Snow MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, February 26 5:05 AM

Also in February

  • Lunar New Year Saturday, February 4 Chinese calendar
  • Eid al-Adha Tuesday, February 14 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Lantern Festival Saturday, February 18 Chinese calendar
  • Partial lunar eclipse Sunday, February 19, 2:00 PM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: February 1–7, February 28.

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).

January February 1905 March
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
31 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:23 AM
Set: 3:32 PM
Dark night
2 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:12 AM
Set: 4:27 PM
Dark night
3 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:56 AM
Set: 5:24 PM
Dark night
4 Saturday
New Moon
6:07 AM
Lunar New Year
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:35 AM
Set: 6:22 PM
Dark night
5 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:11 AM
Set: 7:19 PM
Dark night
6 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:43 AM
Set: 8:16 PM
Dark night
7 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:13 AM
Set: 9:12 PM
Dark night
8 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:42 AM
Set: 10:07 PM
9 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:11 AM
Set: 11:03 PM
10 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:41 AM
Set: 11:59 PM
11 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:12 AM
Set: –
12 Sunday
First Quarter
11:20 AM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:47 AM
Set: 12:56 AM
13 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:26 PM
Set: 1:53 AM
14 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Eid al-Adha
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:10 PM
Set: 2:50 AM
15 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:01 PM
Set: 3:47 AM
16 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:58 PM
Set: 4:43 AM
17 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:02 PM
Set: 5:35 AM
18 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Lantern Festival
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:11 PM
Set: 6:23 AM
19 Sunday
Full Moon
1:53 PM
Snow Moon
Supermoon
Partial lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:23 PM
Set: 7:08 AM
20 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:36 PM
Set: 7:50 AM
21 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:48 PM
Set: 8:29 AM
22 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:00 PM
Set: 9:07 AM
23 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:10 PM
Set: 9:45 AM
24 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:24 AM
25 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:18 AM
Set: 11:05 AM
26 Sunday
Last Quarter
5:05 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:23 AM
Set: 11:50 AM
27 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:24 AM
Set: 12:38 PM
28 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:19 AM
Set: 1:29 PM
Dark night
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday