Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, December 3 2:28 AM
  • Full Moon Monday, December 9 10:10 PM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, December 17 4:57 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, December 25 12:48 PM

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 83% lit, 2 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Saturday, December 21 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Annular solar eclipse Wednesday, December 25, 12:59 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Eid al-Fitr Friday, December 27 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 11, December 21–28.

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 1935 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:55 AM
Set: 10:57 PM
2 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 43% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:24 PM
Set: –
3 Tuesday
First Quarter
2:28 AM
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:52 PM
Set: 12:08 AM
4 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:20 PM
Set: 1:19 AM
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:50 PM
Set: 2:30 AM
6 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:23 PM
Set: 3:43 AM
7 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:01 PM
Set: 4:57 AM
8 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:46 PM
Set: 6:09 AM
9 Monday
Full Moon
10:10 PM
Cold Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:39 PM
Set: 7:18 AM
10 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:39 PM
Set: 8:19 AM
11 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:43 PM
Set: 9:10 AM
Dark night
12 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:48 PM
Set: 9:53 AM
13 Friday
Waning gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:53 PM
Set: 10:28 AM
14 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:55 PM
Set: 10:58 AM
15 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:55 PM
Set: 11:24 AM
16 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:53 PM
Set: 11:47 AM
17 Tuesday
Last Quarter
4:57 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:10 PM
18 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:51 AM
Set: 12:33 PM
19 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:50 AM
Set: 12:57 PM
20 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:49 AM
Set: 1:24 PM
21 Saturday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:51 AM
Set: 1:55 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:54 AM
Set: 2:32 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:56 AM
Set: 3:17 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:57 AM
Set: 4:11 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
New Moon
12:48 PM
Annular solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:52 AM
Set: 5:14 PM
Dark night
26 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:40 AM
Set: 6:22 PM
Dark night
27 Friday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:21 AM
Set: 7:34 PM
Dark night
28 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:57 AM
Set: 8:47 PM
Dark night
29 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:28 AM
Set: 9:59 PM
30 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:56 AM
Set: 11:10 PM
31 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:24 AM
Set: –
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday