Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, December 5 8:26 PM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, December 12 11:31 AM Cold MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, December 19 6:55 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, December 27 10:20 PM

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 97% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Saturday, 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, December 23–31.

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).

November December 1989 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:35 AM
Set: 7:53 PM
Dark night
2 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:13 AM
Set: 9:00 PM
3 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:45 AM
Set: 10:08 PM
4 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:12 PM
Set: 11:17 PM
5 Tuesday
First Quarter
8:26 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:38 PM
Set: –
6 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:02 PM
Set: 12:26 AM
7 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:27 PM
Set: 1:36 AM
8 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:55 PM
Set: 2:49 AM
9 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:27 PM
Set: 4:06 AM
10 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:07 PM
Set: 5:25 AM
11 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:56 PM
Set: 6:43 AM
12 Tuesday
Full Moon
11:31 AM
Cold Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:57 PM
Set: 7:57 AM
13 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:06 PM
Set: 9:00 AM
14 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:19 PM
Set: 9:50 AM
15 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:31 PM
Set: 10:30 AM
16 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:40 PM
Set: 11:02 AM
17 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:45 PM
Set: 11:28 AM
18 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:47 PM
Set: 11:50 AM
19 Tuesday
Last Quarter
6:55 PM
Visible: 53% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:12 PM
20 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:48 AM
Set: 12:32 PM
21 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:47 AM
Set: 12:54 PM
22 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:47 AM
Set: 1:17 PM
23 Saturday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:48 AM
Set: 1:45 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:50 AM
Set: 2:17 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:52 AM
Set: 2:56 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:51 AM
Set: 3:44 PM
Dark night
27 Wednesday
New Moon
10:20 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:46 AM
Set: 4:40 PM
Dark night
28 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:33 AM
Set: 5:43 PM
Dark night
29 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:13 AM
Set: 6:51 PM
Dark night
30 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:47 AM
Set: 8:00 PM
Dark night
31 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:16 AM
Set: 9:09 PM
Dark night
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday