Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Thursday, December 1 4:11 PM
  • First Quarter Friday, December 9 2:05 PM
  • Full Moon Friday, December 16 6:05 AM Cold MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Friday, December 23 5:37 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, December 31 11:21 AM

Also in December

  • Eid al-Adha Monday, December 12 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 90% lit, 1 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Monday, December 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: December 1–5, December 26–31.

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 1910 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
1 Thursday
New Moon
4:11 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:25 AM
Set: 4:55 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:25 AM
Set: 5:33 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:23 AM
Set: 6:19 PM
Dark night
4 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:16 AM
Set: 7:12 PM
Dark night
5 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:03 AM
Set: 8:11 PM
Dark night
6 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:43 AM
Set: 9:15 PM
7 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:17 PM
Set: 10:21 PM
8 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:46 PM
Set: 11:28 PM
9 Friday
First Quarter
2:05 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:12 PM
Set: –
10 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:37 PM
Set: 12:36 AM
11 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:02 PM
Set: 1:45 AM
12 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Eid al-Adha
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:29 PM
Set: 2:57 AM
13 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:59 PM
Set: 4:12 AM
14 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:35 PM
Set: 5:31 AM
15 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:21 PM
Set: 6:51 AM
16 Friday
Full Moon
6:05 AM
Cold Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:17 PM
Set: 8:10 AM
17 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:23 PM
Set: 9:19 AM
18 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:36 PM
Set: 10:17 AM
19 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:50 PM
Set: 11:02 AM
20 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:02 PM
Set: 11:38 AM
21 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:09 PM
Set: 12:06 PM
22 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:31 PM
23 Friday
Last Quarter
5:37 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:13 AM
Set: 12:53 PM
24 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 38% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:14 AM
Set: 1:14 PM
25 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 29% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:14 AM
Set: 1:36 PM
26 Monday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:14 AM
Set: 1:59 PM
Dark night
27 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:15 AM
Set: 2:25 PM
Dark night
28 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:16 AM
Set: 2:55 PM
Dark night
29 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:17 AM
Set: 3:32 PM
Dark night
30 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:17 AM
Set: 4:15 PM
Dark night
31 Saturday
New Moon
11:21 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:12 AM
Set: 5:07 PM
Dark night