Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Saturday, April 1 12:49 AM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, April 8 5:16 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, April 15 12:39 AM
  • First Quarter Saturday, April 22 4:50 PM
  • Full Moon Sunday, April 30 2:43 PM Pink MoonBlue Moon

Also in April

  • Passover Saturday, April 1 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 2 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 43% lit, 3 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 9–17.

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 1961 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Full Moon
12:49 AM
Pink Moon
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:33 PM
Set: 6:42 AM
2 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:35 PM
Set: 7:14 AM
3 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:38 PM
Set: 7:49 AM
4 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:42 PM
Set: 8:27 AM
5 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:45 PM
Set: 9:10 AM
6 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:59 AM
7 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:45 AM
Set: 10:54 AM
8 Saturday
Last Quarter
5:16 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:42 AM
Set: 11:54 AM
9 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:33 AM
Set: 12:59 PM
Dark night
10 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:20 AM
Set: 2:07 PM
Dark night
11 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:02 AM
Set: 3:16 PM
Dark night
12 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:40 AM
Set: 4:26 PM
Dark night
13 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:16 AM
Set: 5:34 PM
Dark night
14 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:51 AM
Set: 6:42 PM
Dark night
15 Saturday
New Moon
12:39 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:27 AM
Set: 7:48 PM
Dark night
16 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:03 AM
Set: 8:52 PM
Dark night
17 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:41 AM
Set: 9:54 PM
Dark night
18 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:22 AM
Set: 10:52 PM
19 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:06 AM
Set: 11:46 PM
20 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 9:54 AM
Set: –
21 Friday
Waxing crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:44 AM
Set: 12:35 AM
22 Saturday
First Quarter
4:50 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:36 AM
Set: 1:19 AM
23 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:30 PM
Set: 1:59 AM
24 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:25 PM
Set: 2:35 AM
25 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:22 PM
Set: 3:09 AM
26 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:20 PM
Set: 3:40 AM
27 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:19 PM
Set: 4:11 AM
28 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:20 PM
Set: 4:42 AM
29 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:22 PM
Set: 5:13 AM
30 Sunday
Full Moon
2:43 PM
Pink Moon
Blue Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:26 PM
Set: 6:47 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday