Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Last Quarter Monday, December 1 10:51 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, December 9 4:41 AM
  • First Quarter Monday, December 15 8:09 PM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, December 23 12:35 PM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, December 31 5:53 PM

Also in December

  • Hanukkah Friday, December 5 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Eid al-Fitr Thursday, December 11 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 27% lit, 8 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 5–12.

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).

November December 1969 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
1 Monday
Last Quarter
10:51 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:55 PM
2 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:10 AM
Set: 1:15 PM
3 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:12 AM
Set: 1:36 PM
4 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:15 AM
Set: 1:57 PM
5 Friday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:21 AM
Set: 2:21 PM
Dark night
6 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:31 AM
Set: 2:49 PM
Dark night
7 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:46 AM
Set: 3:24 PM
Dark night
8 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:03 AM
Set: 4:09 PM
Dark night
9 Tuesday
New Moon
4:41 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:19 AM
Set: 5:07 PM
Dark night
10 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:26 AM
Set: 6:17 PM
Dark night
11 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:21 AM
Set: 7:35 PM
Dark night
12 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:04 AM
Set: 8:55 PM
Dark night
13 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:38 AM
Set: 10:12 PM
14 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:06 PM
Set: 11:26 PM
15 Monday
First Quarter
8:09 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:30 PM
Set: –
16 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:53 PM
Set: 12:36 AM
17 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:15 PM
Set: 1:44 AM
18 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:39 PM
Set: 2:51 AM
19 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:07 PM
Set: 3:59 AM
20 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:38 PM
Set: 5:06 AM
21 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:17 PM
Set: 6:11 AM
22 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:02 PM
Set: 7:13 AM
23 Tuesday
Full Moon
12:35 PM
Cold Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:55 PM
Set: 8:09 AM
24 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:53 PM
Set: 8:56 AM
25 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:55 PM
Set: 9:35 AM
26 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:57 PM
Set: 10:08 AM
27 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:59 PM
Set: 10:35 AM
28 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:00 PM
Set: 10:58 AM
29 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:00 PM
Set: 11:19 AM
30 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:39 AM
31 Wednesday
Last Quarter
5:53 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:01 AM
Set: 11:59 AM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday