Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Thursday, February 4 9:25 AM
  • Full Moon Friday, February 12 12:25 PM Snow Moon
  • Last Quarter Friday, February 19 6:48 PM
  • New Moon Friday, February 26 1:25 PM

Also in February

  • Lantern Festival Thursday, February 11 Chinese calendar
  • Ramadan begins Sunday, February 28 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: February 21–29.

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).

January February 1960 March
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:13 AM
Set: 10:57 PM
2 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:45 AM
Set: 11:56 PM
3 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:18 AM
Set: –
4 Thursday
First Quarter
9:25 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:52 AM
Set: 12:54 AM
5 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:28 PM
Set: 1:50 AM
6 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:08 PM
Set: 2:44 AM
7 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:51 PM
Set: 3:36 AM
8 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:38 PM
Set: 4:25 AM
9 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:28 PM
Set: 5:12 AM
10 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:23 PM
Set: 5:55 AM
11 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Lantern Festival
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:20 PM
Set: 6:35 AM
12 Friday
Full Moon
12:25 PM
Snow Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:19 PM
Set: 7:13 AM
13 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:20 PM
Set: 7:48 AM
14 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:22 PM
Set: 8:22 AM
15 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:25 PM
Set: 8:55 AM
16 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:30 PM
Set: 9:29 AM
17 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:35 PM
Set: 10:04 AM
18 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 64% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:43 AM
19 Friday
Last Quarter
6:48 PM
Visible: 53% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:41 AM
Set: 11:25 AM
20 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:46 AM
Set: 12:12 PM
21 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:50 AM
Set: 1:06 PM
Dark night
22 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:50 AM
Set: 2:05 PM
Dark night
23 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:45 AM
Set: 3:09 PM
Dark night
24 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:35 AM
Set: 4:16 PM
Dark night
25 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:19 AM
Set: 5:24 PM
Dark night
26 Friday
New Moon
1:25 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:59 AM
Set: 6:30 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:35 AM
Set: 7:36 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:09 AM
Set: 8:39 PM
Dark night
29 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:43 AM
Set: 9:41 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday