Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Sunday, April 6 12:48 PM
  • First Quarter Monday, April 14 12:37 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, April 20 4:31 PM Pink MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Monday, April 28 1:10 AM

Also in April

  • Partial solar eclipse Sunday, April 6, 12:33 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 99% lit, 0 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Passover Tuesday, April 22 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 1–8, April 28–30.

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).

March April 1913 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:16 AM
Set: 2:10 PM
Dark night
2 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:41 AM
Set: 3:12 PM
Dark night
3 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:03 AM
Set: 4:12 PM
Dark night
4 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:23 AM
Set: 5:12 PM
Dark night
5 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:43 AM
Set: 6:12 PM
Dark night
6 Sunday
New Moon
12:48 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:02 AM
Set: 7:14 PM
Dark night
7 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:23 AM
Set: 8:17 PM
Dark night
8 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 6:47 AM
Set: 9:23 PM
Dark night
9 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:15 AM
Set: 10:31 PM
10 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 7:50 AM
Set: 11:40 PM
11 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 8:34 AM
Set: –
12 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 9:29 AM
Set: 12:44 AM
13 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:34 AM
Set: 1:42 AM
14 Monday
First Quarter
12:37 AM
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:47 AM
Set: 2:31 AM
15 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:04 PM
Set: 3:10 AM
16 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:21 PM
Set: 3:43 AM
17 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:37 PM
Set: 4:11 AM
18 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:53 PM
Set: 4:37 AM
19 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:08 PM
Set: 5:01 AM
20 Sunday
Full Moon
4:31 PM
Pink Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:24 PM
Set: 5:27 AM
21 Monday
Waning gibbous
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:41 PM
Set: 5:55 AM
22 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:56 PM
Set: 6:28 AM
23 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:07 PM
Set: 7:07 AM
24 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 7:55 AM
25 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:09 AM
Set: 8:50 AM
26 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:01 AM
Set: 9:51 AM
27 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:43 AM
Set: 10:55 AM
28 Monday
Last Quarter
1:10 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:17 AM
Set: 11:59 AM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:44 AM
Set: 1:01 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 28% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:07 AM
Set: 2:02 PM
Dark night
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday