Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, August 2 9:59 PM
  • Full Moon Thursday, August 11 1:58 AM Sturgeon Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, August 18 4:31 PM
  • New Moon Thursday, August 25 7:17 AM

Also in August

  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 11–12 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 98% lit, 0 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 22–30.

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).

July August 1938 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:52 PM
Set: 11:49 PM
2 Tuesday
First Quarter
9:59 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:54 PM
Set: –
3 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:53 PM
Set: 12:25 AM
4 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:50 PM
Set: 1:03 AM
5 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:42 PM
Set: 1:46 AM
6 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:30 PM
Set: 2:32 AM
7 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:14 PM
Set: 3:22 AM
8 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:53 PM
Set: 4:15 AM
9 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:28 PM
Set: 5:11 AM
10 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:01 PM
Set: 6:08 AM
11 Thursday
Full Moon
1:58 AM
Sturgeon Moon
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:31 PM
Set: 7:06 AM
12 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:59 PM
Set: 8:05 AM
13 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:28 PM
Set: 9:04 AM
14 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:57 PM
Set: 10:04 AM
15 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:28 PM
Set: 11:06 AM
16 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:03 PM
Set: 12:08 PM
17 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 63% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:42 PM
Set: 1:13 PM
18 Thursday
Last Quarter
4:31 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:17 PM
19 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:28 AM
Set: 3:21 PM
20 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:21 AM
Set: 4:22 PM
21 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:21 AM
Set: 5:17 PM
22 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:29 AM
Set: 6:07 PM
Dark night
23 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:40 AM
Set: 6:51 PM
Dark night
24 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:53 AM
Set: 7:30 PM
Dark night
25 Thursday
New Moon
7:17 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:06 AM
Set: 8:06 PM
Dark night
26 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:17 AM
Set: 8:40 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:27 AM
Set: 9:13 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:34 AM
Set: 9:47 PM
Dark night
29 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:39 AM
Set: 10:23 PM
Dark night
30 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:41 PM
Set: 11:01 PM
Dark night
31 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:40 PM
Set: 11:43 PM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday