Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Friday, May 5 8:14 AM
  • Full Moon Saturday, May 13 1:10 AM Flower Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, May 21 4:23 AM
  • New Moon Sunday, May 28 1:24 AM

Also in May

  • Eta Aquariids meteor shower peak on the night of May 5–6 up to 50 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 54% lit, 1 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Saturday, May 13, 12:56 AM visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: May 21–29.

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 1911 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 7:22 AM
Set: 11:18 PM
2 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 8:18 AM
Set: –
3 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 9:24 AM
Set: 12:25 AM
4 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:35 AM
Set: 1:20 AM
5 Friday
First Quarter
8:14 AM
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:48 AM
Set: 2:03 AM
6 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:59 PM
Set: 2:37 AM
7 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:06 PM
Set: 3:05 AM
8 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:11 PM
Set: 3:29 AM
9 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:14 PM
Set: 3:51 AM
10 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:16 PM
Set: 4:12 AM
11 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:18 PM
Set: 4:34 AM
12 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:21 PM
Set: 4:57 AM
13 Saturday
Full Moon
1:10 AM
Flower Moon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:23 PM
Set: 5:24 AM
14 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:25 PM
Set: 5:55 AM
15 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:24 PM
Set: 6:32 AM
16 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:17 PM
Set: 7:15 AM
17 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:07 AM
18 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:04 AM
Set: 9:04 AM
19 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:45 AM
Set: 10:06 AM
20 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:19 AM
Set: 11:10 AM
21 Sunday
Last Quarter
4:23 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:48 AM
Set: 12:16 PM
Dark night
22 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:14 AM
Set: 1:23 PM
Dark night
23 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:38 AM
Set: 2:30 PM
Dark night
24 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:02 AM
Set: 3:41 PM
Dark night
25 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:27 AM
Set: 4:54 PM
Dark night
26 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 3:55 AM
Set: 6:12 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 4:28 AM
Set: 7:33 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
New Moon
1:24 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 5:10 AM
Set: 8:53 PM
Dark night
29 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 6:02 AM
Set: 10:07 PM
Dark night
30 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:05 AM
Set: 11:10 PM
31 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:18 AM
Set: 11:59 PM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday