Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Monday, December 6 1:04 PM
  • First Quarter Monday, December 13 6:38 AM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, December 21 7:53 AM Cold MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, December 29 7:59 AM

Also in December

  • Hanukkah Thursday, December 2 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 56% lit, 5 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 2–9, December 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).

November December 1915 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:32 AM
Set: 1:37 PM
2 Thursday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:40 AM
Set: 2:02 PM
Dark night
3 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:52 AM
Set: 2:32 PM
Dark night
4 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:09 AM
Set: 3:07 PM
Dark night
5 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:28 AM
Set: 3:52 PM
Dark night
6 Monday
New Moon
1:04 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:45 AM
Set: 4:49 PM
Dark night
7 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:56 AM
Set: 5:58 PM
Dark night
8 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:54 AM
Set: 7:15 PM
Dark night
9 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:40 AM
Set: 8:33 PM
Dark night
10 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:17 AM
Set: 9:48 PM
11 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:47 AM
Set: 11:00 PM
12 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:12 PM
Set: –
13 Monday
First Quarter
6:38 AM
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:36 PM
Set: 12:07 AM
14 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:58 PM
Set: 1:12 AM
15 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:22 PM
Set: 2:15 AM
16 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:48 PM
Set: 3:18 AM
17 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:17 PM
Set: 4:21 AM
18 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 2:50 PM
Set: 5:23 AM
19 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:31 PM
Set: 6:23 AM
20 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:17 PM
Set: 7:19 AM
21 Tuesday
Full Moon
7:53 AM
Cold Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:11 PM
Set: 8:10 AM
22 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:09 PM
Set: 8:53 AM
23 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:10 PM
Set: 9:31 AM
24 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:13 PM
Set: 10:02 AM
25 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:15 PM
Set: 10:29 AM
26 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:18 PM
Set: 10:54 AM
27 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:21 PM
Set: 11:17 AM
28 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:39 AM
29 Wednesday
Last Quarter
7:59 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:26 AM
Set: 12:03 PM
30 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:33 AM
Set: 12:29 PM
31 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:45 AM
Set: 1:00 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday