Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Sunday, January 3 11:55 PM
  • Full Moon Monday, January 11 8:20 AM Wolf Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, January 19 1:08 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, January 26 5:55 PM

Also in January

  • Quadrantids meteor shower peak on the night of January 3–4 up to 110 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 45% lit, 5 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Lunar New Year Wednesday, January 27 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: January 22–29.

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).

December January 1971 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
31 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:50 AM
Set: 10:29 PM
2 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:15 AM
Set: 11:42 PM
3 Sunday
First Quarter
11:55 PM
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:40 AM
Set: –
4 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:06 PM
Set: 12:54 AM
5 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:34 PM
Set: 2:05 AM
6 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:07 PM
Set: 3:18 AM
7 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: 4:29 AM
8 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 2:34 PM
Set: 5:36 AM
9 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:30 PM
Set: 6:37 AM
10 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:31 PM
Set: 7:29 AM
11 Monday
Full Moon
8:20 AM
Wolf Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:36 PM
Set: 8:11 AM
12 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:41 PM
Set: 8:46 AM
13 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:44 PM
Set: 9:14 AM
14 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:45 PM
Set: 9:38 AM
15 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:44 PM
Set: 9:59 AM
16 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:43 PM
Set: 10:19 AM
17 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:42 PM
Set: 10:39 AM
18 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:00 AM
19 Tuesday
Last Quarter
1:08 PM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:43 AM
Set: 11:23 AM
20 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:46 AM
Set: 11:49 AM
21 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:51 AM
Set: 12:22 PM
22 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:59 AM
Set: 1:03 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 5:05 AM
Set: 1:56 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:06 AM
Set: 3:00 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:59 AM
Set: 4:13 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
New Moon
5:55 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:43 AM
Set: 5:32 PM
Dark night
27 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Lunar New Year
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:19 AM
Set: 6:52 PM
Dark night
28 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:50 AM
Set: 8:10 PM
Dark night
29 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:17 AM
Set: 9:26 PM
Dark night
30 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:43 AM
Set: 10:41 PM
31 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:09 AM
Set: 11:55 PM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday