Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Friday, December 1 8:31 PM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, December 10 1:24 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, December 16 9:53 PM
  • First Quarter Saturday, December 23 3:08 PM
  • Full Moon Sunday, December 31 3:54 PM Cold MoonBlue MoonMicromoon

Also in December

  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 16% lit, 10 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Wednesday, December 13 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Ramadan begins Monday, December 18 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 13–19.

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 1933 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Full Moon
8:31 PM
Cold Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:32 PM
Set: 7:25 AM
2 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:18 PM
Set: 8:24 AM
3 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:10 PM
Set: 9:17 AM
4 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:08 PM
Set: 10:02 AM
5 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:09 PM
Set: 10:41 AM
6 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:11 PM
Set: 11:13 AM
7 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:13 PM
Set: 11:40 AM
8 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:15 PM
Set: 12:04 PM
9 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:26 PM
10 Sunday
Last Quarter
1:24 AM
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:18 AM
Set: 12:48 PM
11 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:22 AM
Set: 1:11 PM
12 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:30 AM
Set: 1:36 PM
13 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Geminids meteor shower
Hanukkah
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:41 AM
Set: 2:05 PM
Dark night
14 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:57 AM
Set: 2:41 PM
Dark night
15 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:15 AM
Set: 3:28 PM
Dark night
16 Saturday
New Moon
9:53 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:32 AM
Set: 4:28 PM
Dark night
17 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:40 AM
Set: 5:39 PM
Dark night
18 Monday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:36 AM
Set: 6:58 PM
Dark night
19 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:19 AM
Set: 8:18 PM
Dark night
20 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:54 AM
Set: 9:35 PM
21 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:22 AM
Set: 10:48 PM
22 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:47 AM
Set: 11:56 PM
23 Saturday
First Quarter
3:08 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:10 PM
Set: –
24 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:33 PM
Set: 1:02 AM
25 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:57 PM
Set: 2:07 AM
26 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:24 PM
Set: 3:12 AM
27 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 1:55 PM
Set: 4:16 AM
28 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:31 PM
Set: 5:18 AM
29 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:15 PM
Set: 6:18 AM
30 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:05 PM
Set: 7:13 AM
31 Sunday
Full Moon
3:54 PM
Cold Moon
Blue Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:01 PM
Set: 8:00 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday