Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Saturday, December 5 3:36 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, December 12 4:03 PM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, December 20 4:09 PM
  • New Moon Monday, December 28 5:42 AM

Also in December

  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 98% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Wednesday, December 23 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 1–2, December 23–30.

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).

November December 1970 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:33 AM
Set: 7:43 PM
Dark night
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:16 AM
Set: 8:58 PM
Dark night
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:51 AM
Set: 10:13 PM
4 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:21 PM
Set: 11:27 PM
5 Saturday
First Quarter
3:36 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:47 PM
Set: –
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:11 PM
Set: 12:39 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:36 PM
Set: 1:50 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:02 PM
Set: 3:02 AM
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:32 PM
Set: 4:15 AM
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:08 PM
Set: 5:28 AM
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:51 PM
Set: 6:40 AM
12 Saturday
Full Moon
4:03 PM
Cold Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:42 PM
Set: 7:47 AM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:41 PM
Set: 8:46 AM
14 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:45 PM
Set: 9:35 AM
15 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:50 PM
Set: 10:14 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:54 PM
Set: 10:46 AM
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:56 PM
Set: 11:13 AM
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:56 PM
Set: 11:35 AM
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:55 PM
Set: 11:56 AM
20 Sunday
Last Quarter
4:09 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:16 PM
21 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:54 AM
Set: 12:36 PM
22 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:54 AM
Set: 12:58 PM
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:57 AM
Set: 1:23 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:03 AM
Set: 1:52 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:11 AM
Set: 2:30 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:20 AM
Set: 3:17 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:25 AM
Set: 4:16 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
New Moon
5:42 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:23 AM
Set: 5:25 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:11 AM
Set: 6:41 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:50 AM
Set: 7:59 PM
Dark night
31 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:22 AM
Set: 9:15 PM
1 Friday
2 Saturday