Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, February 2 9:31 AM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, February 10 2:41 AM Snow Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, February 18 7:14 AM
  • New Moon Thursday, February 25 4:49 AM

Also in February

  • Eid al-Adha Saturday, February 6 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Total lunar eclipse Wednesday, February 10, 2:45 AM visible from Columbus
  • Lantern Festival Wednesday, February 10 Chinese calendar
  • Partial solar eclipse Thursday, February 25, 4:37 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Islamic New Year 1391 AH Friday, February 26 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: February 19–27.

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).

January February 1971 March
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:37 AM
Set: –
2 Tuesday
First Quarter
9:31 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:09 AM
Set: 1:08 AM
3 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 11:46 AM
Set: 2:21 AM
4 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:31 PM
Set: 3:29 AM
5 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:23 PM
Set: 4:32 AM
6 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Eid al-Adha
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:22 PM
Set: 5:26 AM
7 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:26 PM
Set: 6:11 AM
8 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:30 PM
Set: 6:47 AM
9 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:33 PM
Set: 7:17 AM
10 Wednesday
Full Moon
2:41 AM
Snow Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Lantern Festival
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:35 PM
Set: 7:42 AM
11 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:35 PM
Set: 8:04 AM
12 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:34 PM
Set: 8:24 AM
13 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:33 PM
Set: 8:44 AM
14 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:32 PM
Set: 9:04 AM
15 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:34 PM
Set: 9:26 AM
16 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:51 AM
17 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:37 AM
Set: 10:20 AM
18 Thursday
Last Quarter
7:14 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:42 AM
Set: 10:56 AM
19 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 38% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:48 AM
Set: 11:42 AM
Dark night
20 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 28% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:50 AM
Set: 12:39 PM
Dark night
21 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:45 AM
Set: 1:46 PM
Dark night
22 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:33 AM
Set: 3:01 PM
Dark night
23 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:12 AM
Set: 4:20 PM
Dark night
24 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:46 AM
Set: 5:40 PM
Dark night
25 Thursday
New Moon
4:49 AM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:15 AM
Set: 6:59 PM
Dark night
26 Friday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1391 AH
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:42 AM
Set: 8:17 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:09 AM
Set: 9:34 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:37 AM
Set: 10:51 PM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday