Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Last Quarter Thursday, December 5 4:03 AM
  • New Moon Wednesday, December 11 7:56 PM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, December 18 8:59 PM
  • Full Moon Friday, December 27 2:33 AM Cold Moon

Also in December

  • Hanukkah Sunday, December 8 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 6% lit, 11 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 8–14.

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 1985 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:31 PM
Set: 11:20 AM
2 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:37 PM
Set: 11:59 AM
3 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:45 PM
Set: 12:31 PM
4 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:54 PM
Set: 1:00 PM
5 Thursday
Last Quarter
4:03 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:25 PM
6 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:03 AM
Set: 1:49 PM
7 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:14 AM
Set: 2:14 PM
8 Sunday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:27 AM
Set: 2:41 PM
Dark night
9 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:44 AM
Set: 3:12 PM
Dark night
10 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:05 AM
Set: 3:50 PM
Dark night
11 Wednesday
New Moon
7:56 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:25 AM
Set: 4:38 PM
Dark night
12 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:42 AM
Set: 5:36 PM
Dark night
13 Friday
Waxing crescent
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:48 AM
Set: 6:45 PM
Dark night
14 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:41 AM
Set: 7:58 PM
Dark night
15 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:22 AM
Set: 9:12 PM
16 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:54 AM
Set: 10:21 PM
17 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:21 PM
Set: 11:27 PM
18 Wednesday
First Quarter
8:59 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:44 PM
Set: –
19 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:05 PM
Set: 12:30 AM
20 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:25 PM
Set: 1:31 AM
21 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:46 PM
Set: 2:31 AM
22 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:09 PM
Set: 3:31 AM
23 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:35 PM
Set: 4:32 AM
24 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:07 PM
Set: 5:33 AM
25 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:44 PM
Set: 6:35 AM
26 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:30 PM
Set: 7:35 AM
27 Friday
Full Moon
2:33 AM
Cold Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:23 PM
Set: 8:30 AM
28 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:24 PM
Set: 9:18 AM
29 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:30 PM
Set: 9:59 AM
30 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:38 PM
Set: 10:34 AM
31 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:46 PM
Set: 11:03 AM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday