Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Wednesday, May 5 7:09 AM Flower Moon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, May 12 4:46 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, May 19 8:44 AM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, May 26 8:27 PM

Also in May

  • Eta Aquariids meteor shower peak on the night of May 4–5 up to 50 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 100% lit, 0 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Shavuot Wednesday, May 26 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: May 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).

April May 1909 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
25 Sunday
26 Monday
27 Tuesday
28 Wednesday
29 Thursday
30 Friday
1 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:50 PM
Set: 4:08 AM
2 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:48 PM
Set: 4:31 AM
3 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:48 PM
Set: 4:54 AM
4 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:48 PM
Set: 5:18 AM
5 Wednesday
Full Moon
7:09 AM
Flower Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:51 PM
Set: 5:44 AM
6 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:55 PM
Set: 6:13 AM
7 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:59 PM
Set: 6:48 AM
8 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:02 PM
Set: 7:29 AM
9 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:18 AM
10 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:00 AM
Set: 9:16 AM
11 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 63% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:52 AM
Set: 10:22 AM
12 Wednesday
Last Quarter
4:46 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:37 AM
Set: 11:32 AM
13 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:15 AM
Set: 12:44 PM
Dark night
14 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:49 AM
Set: 1:57 PM
Dark night
15 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:19 AM
Set: 3:10 PM
Dark night
16 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:48 AM
Set: 4:24 PM
Dark night
17 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:17 AM
Set: 5:37 PM
Dark night
18 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 4:48 AM
Set: 6:52 PM
Dark night
19 Wednesday
New Moon
8:44 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 5:22 AM
Set: 8:06 PM
Dark night
20 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 6:02 AM
Set: 9:16 PM
Dark night
21 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 6:48 AM
Set: 10:21 PM
Dark night
22 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 7:40 AM
Set: 11:18 PM
23 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 8:38 AM
Set: –
24 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 9:39 AM
Set: 12:06 AM
25 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:40 AM
Set: 12:46 AM
26 Wednesday
First Quarter
8:27 PM
Shavuot
Visible: 47% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:41 AM
Set: 1:19 AM
27 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:41 PM
Set: 1:47 AM
28 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:40 PM
Set: 2:12 AM
29 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:38 PM
Set: 2:35 AM
30 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:37 PM
Set: 2:58 AM
31 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:37 PM
Set: 3:21 AM
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday