Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, May 3 9:01 PM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, May 11 1:43 AM Flower MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, May 17 3:54 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, May 25 8:27 AM

Also in May

  • Eta Aquariids meteor shower peak on the night of May 4–5 up to 50 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 64% lit, 1 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Dragon Boat Festival Sunday, May 29 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: May 19–28.

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).

April May 1960 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:53 AM
Set: 12:39 AM
2 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:45 AM
Set: 1:22 AM
3 Tuesday
First Quarter
9:01 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:40 PM
Set: 2:02 AM
4 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:37 PM
Set: 2:39 AM
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:36 PM
Set: 3:14 AM
6 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:37 PM
Set: 3:48 AM
7 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:41 PM
Set: 4:21 AM
8 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:47 PM
Set: 4:55 AM
9 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:55 PM
Set: 5:31 AM
10 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:05 PM
Set: 6:10 AM
11 Wednesday
Full Moon
1:43 AM
Flower Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:16 PM
Set: 6:54 AM
12 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:24 PM
Set: 7:44 AM
13 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:28 PM
Set: 8:40 AM
14 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:42 AM
15 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:24 AM
Set: 10:47 AM
16 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 63% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:14 AM
Set: 11:53 AM
17 Tuesday
Last Quarter
3:54 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:57 AM
Set: 12:59 PM
18 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:36 AM
Set: 2:04 PM
19 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:11 AM
Set: 3:07 PM
Dark night
20 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:44 AM
Set: 4:08 PM
Dark night
21 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:15 AM
Set: 5:08 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:47 AM
Set: 6:07 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:20 AM
Set: 7:05 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:56 AM
Set: 8:01 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
New Moon
8:27 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:33 AM
Set: 8:56 PM
Dark night
26 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:14 AM
Set: 9:47 PM
Dark night
27 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:59 AM
Set: 10:36 PM
Dark night
28 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:47 AM
Set: 11:20 PM
Dark night
29 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Dragon Boat Festival
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:38 AM
Set: –
30 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:31 AM
Set: 12:02 AM
31 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:27 AM
Set: 12:39 AM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday