Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Saturday, March 5 6:05 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, March 13 3:27 AM Worm Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, March 20 1:41 AM
  • New Moon Sunday, March 27 2:39 AM

Also in March

  • Total lunar eclipse Sunday, March 13, 3:28 AM visible from Columbus
  • Holi Sunday, March 13 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Purim Sunday, March 13 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Partial solar eclipse Sunday, March 27, 2:25 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Eid al-Fitr Monday, March 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: March 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).

February March 1960 April
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:16 AM
Set: 10:40 PM
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:50 AM
Set: 11:38 PM
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:26 AM
Set: –
4 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 43% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:04 AM
Set: 12:34 AM
5 Saturday
First Quarter
6:05 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:45 AM
Set: 1:27 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:31 PM
Set: 2:17 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:20 PM
Set: 3:05 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:12 PM
Set: 3:49 AM
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:08 PM
Set: 4:31 AM
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:06 PM
Set: 5:09 AM
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:07 PM
Set: 5:46 AM
12 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:09 PM
Set: 6:20 AM
13 Sunday
Full Moon
3:27 AM
Worm Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Holi
Purim
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:13 PM
Set: 6:55 AM
14 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:19 PM
Set: 7:29 AM
15 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:25 PM
Set: 8:04 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:32 PM
Set: 8:43 AM
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:39 PM
Set: 9:24 AM
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:10 AM
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:43 AM
Set: 11:02 AM
20 Sunday
Last Quarter
1:41 AM
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:44 AM
Set: 11:59 AM
21 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:40 AM
Set: 1:00 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:30 AM
Set: 2:04 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:15 AM
Set: 3:10 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:55 AM
Set: 4:15 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:32 AM
Set: 5:20 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:07 AM
Set: 6:23 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
New Moon
2:39 AM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:40 AM
Set: 7:26 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:13 AM
Set: 8:26 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:47 AM
Set: 9:25 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:22 AM
Set: 10:22 PM
31 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 8:59 AM
Set: 11:17 PM
1 Friday
2 Saturday