Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Last Quarter Saturday, December 4 11:13 AM
  • New Moon Sunday, December 12 2:58 PM
  • First Quarter Sunday, December 19 9:17 PM
  • Full Moon Sunday, December 26 4:29 PM Cold Moon

Also in December

  • Hanukkah Wednesday, December 8 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Partial solar eclipse Sunday, December 12, 2:45 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 12–13 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 1% lit, 11 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Eid al-Adha Thursday, December 23 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 8–16.

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 1909 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:26 PM
Set: 11:50 AM
2 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:30 PM
Set: 12:27 PM
3 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:33 PM
Set: 12:58 PM
4 Saturday
Last Quarter
11:13 AM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:25 PM
5 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:34 AM
Set: 1:48 PM
6 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:33 AM
Set: 2:10 PM
7 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:31 AM
Set: 2:32 PM
8 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:29 AM
Set: 2:54 PM
Dark night
9 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:29 AM
Set: 3:19 PM
Dark night
10 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:30 AM
Set: 3:47 PM
Dark night
11 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:33 AM
Set: 4:20 PM
Dark night
12 Sunday
New Moon
2:58 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:36 AM
Set: 5:00 PM
Dark night
13 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:38 AM
Set: 5:48 PM
Dark night
14 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:36 AM
Set: 6:44 PM
Dark night
15 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:27 AM
Set: 7:48 PM
Dark night
16 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:11 AM
Set: 8:56 PM
Dark night
17 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:48 AM
Set: 10:07 PM
18 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:20 PM
Set: 11:18 PM
19 Sunday
First Quarter
9:17 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:49 PM
Set: –
20 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:16 PM
Set: 12:29 AM
21 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:43 PM
Set: 1:40 AM
22 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:11 PM
Set: 2:52 AM
23 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Eid al-Adha
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:44 PM
Set: 4:06 AM
24 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:21 PM
Set: 5:21 AM
25 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:06 PM
Set: 6:35 AM
26 Sunday
Full Moon
4:29 PM
Cold Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:00 PM
Set: 7:45 AM
27 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:00 PM
Set: 8:47 AM
28 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:06 PM
Set: 9:39 AM
29 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:12 PM
Set: 10:22 AM
30 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:18 PM
Set: 10:56 AM
31 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:20 PM
Set: 11:25 AM
1 Saturday