Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Friday, December 5 4:26 PM
  • Full Moon Friday, December 12 11:39 AM Cold MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Friday, December 19 5:31 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, December 27 7:24 AM

Also in December

  • Eid al-Adha Monday, December 8 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 98% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Monday, December 22 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Islamic New Year 1430 AH Monday, December 29 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: December 1, December 22–30.

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 2008 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:52 AM
Set: 8:27 PM
Dark night
2 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:24 AM
Set: 9:29 PM
3 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:51 AM
Set: 10:31 PM
4 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:15 PM
Set: 11:33 PM
5 Friday
First Quarter
4:26 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:38 PM
Set: –
6 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:01 PM
Set: 12:37 AM
7 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:25 PM
Set: 1:43 AM
8 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Eid al-Adha
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:52 PM
Set: 2:52 AM
9 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:25 PM
Set: 4:05 AM
10 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:05 PM
Set: 5:22 AM
11 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:56 PM
Set: 6:40 AM
12 Friday
Full Moon
11:39 AM
Cold Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:59 PM
Set: 7:55 AM
13 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:13 PM
Set: 8:59 AM
14 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:32 PM
Set: 9:52 AM
15 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:50 PM
Set: 10:33 AM
16 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:04 PM
Set: 11:06 AM
17 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:14 PM
Set: 11:34 AM
18 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:58 AM
19 Friday
Last Quarter
5:31 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:21 AM
Set: 12:21 PM
20 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:25 AM
Set: 12:45 PM
21 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 28% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:29 AM
Set: 1:10 PM
22 Monday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:32 AM
Set: 1:37 PM
Dark night
23 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:35 AM
Set: 2:09 PM
Dark night
24 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:36 AM
Set: 2:47 PM
Dark night
25 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:34 AM
Set: 3:31 PM
Dark night
26 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:27 AM
Set: 4:23 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
New Moon
7:24 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:13 AM
Set: 5:19 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:53 AM
Set: 6:20 PM
Dark night
29 Monday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1430 AH
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:26 AM
Set: 7:22 PM
Dark night
30 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:54 AM
Set: 8:24 PM
Dark night
31 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:19 AM
Set: 9:26 PM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday