Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Tuesday, January 7 5:28 AM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, January 15 11:01 AM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, January 22 10:40 AM Wolf MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, January 29 2:34 AM

Also in January

  • Quadrantids meteor shower peak on the night of January 2–3 up to 110 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 20% lit, 10 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: January 2–10, January 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).

December January 1913 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
31 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:18 AM
Set: 1:02 PM
2 Thursday
Waning crescent
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:28 AM
Set: 1:30 PM
Dark night
3 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:37 AM
Set: 2:03 PM
Dark night
4 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:44 AM
Set: 2:43 PM
Dark night
5 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:47 AM
Set: 3:31 PM
Dark night
6 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:43 AM
Set: 4:27 PM
Dark night
7 Tuesday
New Moon
5:28 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:29 AM
Set: 5:27 PM
Dark night
8 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:08 AM
Set: 6:30 PM
Dark night
9 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:39 AM
Set: 7:33 PM
Dark night
10 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:04 AM
Set: 8:35 PM
Dark night
11 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:27 AM
Set: 9:35 PM
12 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:47 AM
Set: 10:35 PM
13 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:06 AM
Set: 11:34 PM
14 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:26 AM
Set: –
15 Wednesday
First Quarter
11:01 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:47 AM
Set: 12:35 AM
16 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:11 PM
Set: 1:39 AM
17 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:41 PM
Set: 2:47 AM
18 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:18 PM
Set: 3:58 AM
19 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:07 PM
Set: 5:10 AM
20 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:09 PM
Set: 6:20 AM
21 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:23 PM
Set: 7:21 AM
22 Wednesday
Full Moon
10:40 AM
Wolf Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:44 PM
Set: 8:11 AM
23 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:07 PM
Set: 8:51 AM
24 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:26 PM
Set: 9:23 AM
25 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:43 PM
Set: 9:50 AM
26 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:56 PM
Set: 10:15 AM
27 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:39 AM
28 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:08 AM
Set: 11:04 AM
29 Wednesday
Last Quarter
2:34 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:19 AM
Set: 11:32 AM
30 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:30 AM
Set: 12:04 PM
31 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:38 AM
Set: 12:42 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday