Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Wednesday, January 6 9:12 AM Wolf Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, January 14 1:13 PM
  • New Moon Thursday, January 21 7:11 PM
  • First Quarter Thursday, January 28 10:08 AM

Also in January

  • Quadrantids meteor shower peak on the night of January 2–3 up to 110 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 86% lit, 1 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Lunar New Year Friday, January 22 Chinese calendar
  • Islamic New Year 1327 AH Saturday, January 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: January 17–24.

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).

December January 1909 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
31 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:55 PM
Set: 2:48 AM
2 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:27 PM
Set: 3:57 AM
3 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:04 PM
Set: 5:04 AM
4 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:47 PM
Set: 6:09 AM
5 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:35 PM
Set: 7:10 AM
6 Wednesday
Full Moon
9:12 AM
Wolf Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:29 PM
Set: 8:05 AM
7 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:27 PM
Set: 8:52 AM
8 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:26 PM
Set: 9:33 AM
9 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:26 PM
Set: 10:08 AM
10 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:26 PM
Set: 10:37 AM
11 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:24 PM
Set: 11:04 AM
12 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:22 PM
Set: 11:28 AM
13 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:51 AM
14 Thursday
Last Quarter
1:13 PM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:20 AM
Set: 12:15 PM
15 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:20 AM
Set: 12:40 PM
16 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:22 AM
Set: 1:08 PM
17 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:26 AM
Set: 1:41 PM
Dark night
18 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:33 AM
Set: 2:21 PM
Dark night
19 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:40 AM
Set: 3:10 PM
Dark night
20 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:46 AM
Set: 4:09 PM
Dark night
21 Thursday
New Moon
7:11 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:45 AM
Set: 5:17 PM
Dark night
22 Friday
Waxing crescent
Lunar New Year
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:37 AM
Set: 6:32 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1327 AH
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:20 AM
Set: 7:49 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:57 AM
Set: 9:05 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:30 AM
Set: 10:19 PM
26 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:59 AM
Set: 11:30 PM
27 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:28 AM
Set: –
28 Thursday
First Quarter
10:08 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:58 AM
Set: 12:40 AM
29 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:29 PM
Set: 1:49 AM
30 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:05 PM
Set: 2:57 AM
31 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:45 PM
Set: 4:02 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday