Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Monday, April 3 11:17 PM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, April 11 11:11 AM
  • New Moon Wednesday, April 19 11:35 AM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, April 26 1:24 PM

Also in April

  • Passover Tuesday, April 4 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 9 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Annular solar eclipse Wednesday, April 19, 11:29 AM visible from Columbus as a partial eclipse, 12.7% of the Sun covered
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 9% lit, 7 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: April 13–21.

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).

March April 1939 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:24 PM
Set: 4:29 AM
2 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:35 PM
Set: 5:05 AM
3 Monday
Full Moon
11:17 PM
Pink Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:45 PM
Set: 5:40 AM
4 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:54 PM
Set: 6:17 AM
5 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:01 PM
Set: 6:55 AM
6 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:04 PM
Set: 7:35 AM
7 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:03 PM
Set: 8:19 AM
8 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:57 PM
Set: 9:07 AM
9 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:58 AM
10 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:45 AM
Set: 10:50 AM
11 Tuesday
Last Quarter
11:11 AM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:27 AM
Set: 11:45 AM
12 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:05 AM
Set: 12:40 PM
13 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:39 AM
Set: 1:36 PM
Dark night
14 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:10 AM
Set: 2:33 PM
Dark night
15 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:40 AM
Set: 3:30 PM
Dark night
16 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:09 AM
Set: 4:28 PM
Dark night
17 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:38 AM
Set: 5:27 PM
Dark night
18 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:09 AM
Set: 6:28 PM
Dark night
19 Wednesday
New Moon
11:35 AM
Annular solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 5:42 AM
Set: 7:30 PM
Dark night
20 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 6:18 AM
Set: 8:32 PM
Dark night
21 Friday
Waxing crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:00 AM
Set: 9:35 PM
Dark night
22 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 7:48 AM
Set: 10:35 PM
23 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 8:41 AM
Set: 11:31 PM
24 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 9:41 AM
Set: –
25 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:45 AM
Set: 12:23 AM
26 Wednesday
First Quarter
1:24 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:53 AM
Set: 1:09 AM
27 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:01 PM
Set: 1:50 AM
28 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:10 PM
Set: 2:28 AM
29 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:19 PM
Set: 3:03 AM
30 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:27 PM
Set: 4:38 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday