Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Tuesday, December 5 9:52 PM Cold MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, December 12 12:46 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, December 20 10:40 AM
  • First Quarter Thursday, December 28 1:47 PM

Also in December

  • Eid al-Adha Friday, December 1 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 36% lit, 7 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Saturday, December 16 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Islamic New Year 1330 AH Friday, December 22 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 15–24.

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).

November December 1911 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Eid al-Adha
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:28 PM
Set: 2:13 AM
2 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:52 PM
Set: 3:21 AM
3 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:20 PM
Set: 4:32 AM
4 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:53 PM
Set: 5:49 AM
5 Tuesday
Full Moon
9:52 PM
Cold Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:36 PM
Set: 7:09 AM
6 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:30 PM
Set: 8:28 AM
7 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:36 PM
Set: 9:41 AM
8 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:52 PM
Set: 10:42 AM
9 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:10 PM
Set: 11:29 AM
10 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:26 PM
Set: 12:07 PM
11 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:38 PM
Set: 12:36 PM
12 Tuesday
Last Quarter
12:46 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:02 PM
13 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:47 AM
Set: 1:24 PM
14 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:52 AM
Set: 1:46 PM
15 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:56 AM
Set: 2:08 PM
Dark night
16 Saturday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:00 AM
Set: 2:32 PM
Dark night
17 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:04 AM
Set: 3:00 PM
Dark night
18 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:08 AM
Set: 3:32 PM
Dark night
19 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:10 AM
Set: 4:10 PM
Dark night
20 Wednesday
New Moon
10:40 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:09 AM
Set: 4:56 PM
Dark night
21 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 9:01 AM
Set: 5:49 PM
Dark night
22 Friday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1330 AH
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:46 AM
Set: 6:47 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:24 AM
Set: 7:48 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:56 AM
Set: 8:51 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:23 AM
Set: 9:53 PM
26 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:47 AM
Set: 10:56 PM
27 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:08 PM
Set: 11:59 PM
28 Thursday
First Quarter
1:47 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:30 PM
Set: –
29 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:52 PM
Set: 1:03 AM
30 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:17 PM
Set: 2:10 AM
31 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:46 PM
Set: 3:22 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday