Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Monday, April 5 3:28 PM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, April 13 9:31 AM
  • New Moon Monday, April 19 11:53 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, April 27 3:35 AM

Also in April

  • Passover Tuesday, April 6 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 11 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 4% lit, 7 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

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 1909 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:02 PM
Set: 4:45 AM
2 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:01 PM
Set: 5:14 AM
3 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:00 PM
Set: 5:40 AM
4 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:58 PM
Set: 6:03 AM
5 Monday
Full Moon
3:28 PM
Pink Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:57 PM
Set: 6:26 AM
6 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:56 PM
Set: 6:49 AM
7 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:57 PM
Set: 7:14 AM
8 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:59 PM
Set: 7:41 AM
9 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:02 PM
Set: 8:11 AM
10 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:48 AM
11 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:06 AM
Set: 9:31 AM
12 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:07 AM
Set: 10:23 AM
13 Tuesday
Last Quarter
9:31 AM
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:03 AM
Set: 11:24 AM
Dark night
14 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 38% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:54 AM
Set: 12:32 PM
Dark night
15 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:37 AM
Set: 1:44 PM
Dark night
16 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:15 AM
Set: 2:59 PM
Dark night
17 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:48 AM
Set: 4:15 PM
Dark night
18 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:19 AM
Set: 5:31 PM
Dark night
19 Monday
New Moon
11:53 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:49 AM
Set: 6:46 PM
Dark night
20 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:20 AM
Set: 8:02 PM
Dark night
21 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 6:53 AM
Set: 9:17 PM
Dark night
22 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:30 AM
Set: 10:29 PM
23 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:12 AM
Set: 11:36 PM
24 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:00 AM
Set: –
25 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 9:54 AM
Set: 12:36 AM
26 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:52 AM
Set: 1:28 AM
27 Tuesday
First Quarter
3:35 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:52 AM
Set: 2:11 AM
28 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:53 PM
Set: 2:47 AM
29 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:53 PM
Set: 3:17 AM
30 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:52 PM
Set: 3:44 AM
1 Saturday