Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Last Quarter Sunday, December 1 6:06 AM
  • New Moon Sunday, December 8 12:07 PM
  • First Quarter Monday, December 16 3:07 PM
  • Full Moon Monday, December 23 11:30 PM Cold MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Monday, December 30 3:13 PM

Also in December

  • Hanukkah Thursday, December 5 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Islamic New Year 1331 AH Tuesday, December 10 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 12–13 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 19% lit, 9 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 4–12.

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 1912 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Last Quarter
6:06 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:22 PM
2 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:57 AM
Set: 1:46 PM
3 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:07 AM
Set: 2:09 PM
4 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:17 AM
Set: 2:32 PM
Dark night
5 Thursday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:26 AM
Set: 2:58 PM
Dark night
6 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:37 AM
Set: 3:28 PM
Dark night
7 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:47 AM
Set: 4:04 PM
Dark night
8 Sunday
New Moon
12:07 PM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:54 AM
Set: 4:47 PM
Dark night
9 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:56 AM
Set: 5:38 PM
Dark night
10 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1331 AH
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:49 AM
Set: 6:36 PM
Dark night
11 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:33 AM
Set: 7:38 PM
Dark night
12 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:08 AM
Set: 8:41 PM
Dark night
13 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:37 AM
Set: 9:44 PM
14 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:02 PM
Set: 10:45 PM
15 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:23 PM
Set: 11:45 PM
16 Monday
First Quarter
3:07 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:43 PM
Set: –
17 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:03 PM
Set: 12:45 AM
18 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:24 PM
Set: 1:46 AM
19 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: 2:50 AM
20 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:14 PM
Set: 3:57 AM
21 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 2:48 PM
Set: 5:09 AM
22 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:31 PM
Set: 6:23 AM
23 Monday
Full Moon
11:30 PM
Cold Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:27 PM
Set: 7:36 AM
24 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:36 PM
Set: 8:42 AM
25 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:53 PM
Set: 9:37 AM
26 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:13 PM
Set: 10:21 AM
27 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:32 PM
Set: 10:56 AM
28 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:47 PM
Set: 11:25 AM
29 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 63% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:59 PM
Set: 11:50 AM
30 Monday
Last Quarter
3:13 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:13 PM
31 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:09 AM
Set: 12:36 PM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday