Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Tuesday, January 4 11:47 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, January 11 10:37 PM
  • Full Moon Thursday, January 20 3:30 AM Wolf Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, January 27 7:35 PM

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 4% lit, 11 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Partial lunar eclipse Thursday, January 20, 3:39 AM visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: January 1–7, January 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).

December January 1916 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:00 AM
Set: 1:39 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
Waning crescent
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:17 AM
Set: 2:28 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:30 AM
Set: 3:30 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
New Moon
11:47 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:35 AM
Set: 4:43 PM
Dark night
5 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:28 AM
Set: 6:03 PM
Dark night
6 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:10 AM
Set: 7:22 PM
Dark night
7 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:44 AM
Set: 8:38 PM
Dark night
8 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:12 AM
Set: 9:50 PM
9 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:37 AM
Set: 10:58 PM
10 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:01 AM
Set: –
11 Tuesday
First Quarter
10:37 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:25 AM
Set: 12:04 AM
12 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:50 AM
Set: 1:09 AM
13 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:18 PM
Set: 2:12 AM
14 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:50 PM
Set: 3:15 AM
15 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:28 PM
Set: 4:16 AM
16 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:13 PM
Set: 5:13 AM
17 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:04 PM
Set: 6:06 AM
18 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:01 PM
Set: 6:52 AM
19 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:02 PM
Set: 7:31 AM
20 Thursday
Full Moon
3:30 AM
Wolf Moon
Partial lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:05 PM
Set: 8:05 AM
21 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:08 PM
Set: 8:33 AM
22 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:11 PM
Set: 8:59 AM
23 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:14 PM
Set: 9:22 AM
24 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:18 PM
Set: 9:44 AM
25 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:23 PM
Set: 10:07 AM
26 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 64% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:32 AM
27 Thursday
Last Quarter
7:35 PM
Visible: 53% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:32 AM
Set: 11:00 AM
28 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:43 AM
Set: 11:35 AM
29 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:57 AM
Set: 12:17 PM
Dark night
30 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:09 AM
Set: 1:11 PM
Dark night
31 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:16 AM
Set: 2:17 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday