Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Friday, March 7 7:22 PM
  • First Quarter Saturday, March 15 3:56 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, March 22 6:55 AM Worm MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, March 29 7:58 AM

Also in March

  • Total lunar eclipse Saturday, March 22, 6:57 AM partly visible from Columbus
  • Holi Sunday, March 23 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Purim Sunday, March 23 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, March 23 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: March 1–10, March 29–31.

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).

February March 1913 April
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
23 Sunday
24 Monday
25 Tuesday
26 Wednesday
27 Thursday
28 Friday
1 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:35 AM
Set: 12:14 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:27 AM
Set: 1:12 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 5:09 AM
Set: 2:14 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:44 AM
Set: 3:16 PM
Dark night
5 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:13 AM
Set: 4:19 PM
Dark night
6 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:37 AM
Set: 5:20 PM
Dark night
7 Friday
New Moon
7:22 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:58 AM
Set: 6:20 PM
Dark night
8 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:18 AM
Set: 7:20 PM
Dark night
9 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:37 AM
Set: 8:20 PM
Dark night
10 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:56 AM
Set: 9:22 PM
Dark night
11 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:18 AM
Set: 10:25 PM
12 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 8:42 AM
Set: 11:31 PM
13 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 9:12 AM
Set: –
14 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 9:50 AM
Set: 12:40 AM
15 Saturday
First Quarter
3:56 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 10:37 AM
Set: 1:47 AM
16 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 11:36 AM
Set: 2:51 AM
17 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:46 PM
Set: 3:47 AM
18 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:04 PM
Set: 4:34 AM
19 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:24 PM
Set: 5:12 AM
20 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:44 PM
Set: 5:44 AM
21 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:02 PM
Set: 6:12 AM
22 Saturday
Full Moon
6:55 AM
Worm Moon
Supermoon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:19 PM
Set: 6:37 AM
23 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Holi
Purim
Easter
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:36 PM
Set: 7:02 AM
24 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:52 PM
Set: 7:29 AM
25 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:07 PM
Set: 7:59 AM
26 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:34 AM
27 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:19 AM
Set: 9:16 AM
28 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:25 AM
Set: 10:06 AM
29 Saturday
Last Quarter
7:58 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:21 AM
Set: 11:03 AM
Dark night
30 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 39% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:08 AM
Set: 12:04 PM
Dark night
31 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:46 AM
Set: 1:07 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday