Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Sunday, April 5 11:12 PM
  • First Quarter Monday, April 13 10:45 AM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, April 21 11:24 AM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, April 28 1:19 PM

Also in April

  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 99% lit, 0 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Passover Tuesday, April 21 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 1–7, April 29–30.

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 1970 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
31 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:52 AM
Set: 1:45 PM
Dark night
2 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:25 AM
Set: 3:03 PM
Dark night
3 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:53 AM
Set: 4:19 PM
Dark night
4 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:18 AM
Set: 5:33 PM
Dark night
5 Sunday
New Moon
11:12 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 5:43 AM
Set: 6:47 PM
Dark night
6 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:08 AM
Set: 8:01 PM
Dark night
7 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 6:35 AM
Set: 9:14 PM
Dark night
8 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:07 AM
Set: 10:26 PM
9 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 7:44 AM
Set: 11:34 PM
10 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 8:28 AM
Set: –
11 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 9:20 AM
Set: 12:35 AM
12 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:18 AM
Set: 1:27 AM
13 Monday
First Quarter
10:45 AM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:19 AM
Set: 2:09 AM
14 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:21 PM
Set: 2:44 AM
15 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:24 PM
Set: 3:13 AM
16 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:25 PM
Set: 3:37 AM
17 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:26 PM
Set: 3:59 AM
18 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:27 PM
Set: 4:19 AM
19 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:30 PM
Set: 4:39 AM
20 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:35 PM
Set: 5:01 AM
21 Tuesday
Full Moon
11:24 AM
Pink Moon
Lyrids meteor shower
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:43 PM
Set: 5:24 AM
22 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:53 PM
Set: 5:52 AM
23 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:05 PM
Set: 6:26 AM
24 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:15 PM
Set: 7:08 AM
25 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:02 AM
26 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:17 AM
Set: 10:06 AM
27 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:09 AM
Set: 11:18 AM
28 Tuesday
Last Quarter
1:19 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:52 AM
Set: 12:34 PM
29 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 39% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:26 AM
Set: 1:50 PM
Dark night
30 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 28% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:55 AM
Set: 3:04 PM
Dark night
1 Friday
2 Saturday