Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Tuesday, January 6 2:24 AM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, January 13 5:11 AM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, January 20 2:39 AM Wolf Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, January 27 11:20 PM

Also in January

  • Quadrantids meteor shower peak on the night of January 2–3 up to 110 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 9% lit, 10 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Tuesday, January 20, 2:50 AM visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: January 1–9, January 30–31.

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 1981 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:20 AM
Set: 2:17 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
Waning crescent
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:18 AM
Set: 2:51 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:15 AM
Set: 3:30 PM
Dark night
4 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:13 AM
Set: 4:13 PM
Dark night
5 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:09 AM
Set: 5:03 PM
Dark night
6 Tuesday
New Moon
2:24 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:01 AM
Set: 6:00 PM
Dark night
7 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:50 AM
Set: 7:01 PM
Dark night
8 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:33 AM
Set: 8:05 PM
Dark night
9 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:13 AM
Set: 9:12 PM
Dark night
10 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:49 AM
Set: 10:19 PM
11 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:23 AM
Set: 11:27 PM
12 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:57 AM
Set: –
13 Tuesday
First Quarter
5:11 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:30 PM
Set: 12:35 AM
14 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:06 PM
Set: 1:44 AM
15 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:45 PM
Set: 2:53 AM
16 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:28 PM
Set: 4:02 AM
17 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:18 PM
Set: 5:09 AM
18 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:12 PM
Set: 6:12 AM
19 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:12 PM
Set: 7:09 AM
20 Tuesday
Full Moon
2:39 AM
Wolf Moon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:14 PM
Set: 7:59 AM
21 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:17 PM
Set: 8:43 AM
22 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:19 PM
Set: 9:20 AM
23 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:19 PM
Set: 9:53 AM
24 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:18 PM
Set: 10:24 AM
25 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:15 PM
Set: 10:52 AM
26 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 64% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:19 AM
27 Tuesday
Last Quarter
11:20 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:12 AM
Set: 11:47 AM
28 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:09 AM
Set: 12:17 PM
29 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:05 AM
Set: 12:49 PM
30 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:02 AM
Set: 1:25 PM
Dark night
31 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:00 AM
Set: 2:06 PM
Dark night