Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Friday, May 1 4:45 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, May 9 12:02 AM Flower Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, May 17 3:28 AM
  • New Moon Sunday, May 24 8:12 AM
  • First Quarter Saturday, May 30 11:23 PM

Also in May

  • Eta Aquariids meteor shower peak on the night of May 5–6 up to 50 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 90% lit, 0 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Dragon Boat Festival Thursday, May 28 Chinese calendar
  • Shavuot Friday, May 29 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: May 19–26.

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).

April May 2009 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
First Quarter
4:45 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:39 PM
Set: 2:25 AM
2 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:51 PM
Set: 2:58 AM
3 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:01 PM
Set: 3:27 AM
4 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:09 PM
Set: 3:52 AM
5 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:15 PM
Set: 4:17 AM
6 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:22 PM
Set: 4:41 AM
7 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:28 PM
Set: 5:08 AM
8 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:34 PM
Set: 5:38 AM
9 Saturday
Full Moon
12:02 AM
Flower Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:37 PM
Set: 6:12 AM
10 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:36 PM
Set: 6:52 AM
11 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:29 PM
Set: 7:38 AM
12 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:31 AM
13 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 12:15 AM
Set: 9:28 AM
14 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:54 AM
Set: 10:28 AM
15 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:26 AM
Set: 11:29 AM
16 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 56% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:55 AM
Set: 12:30 PM
17 Sunday
Last Quarter
3:28 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:20 AM
Set: 1:31 PM
18 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:43 AM
Set: 2:33 PM
19 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:06 AM
Set: 3:37 PM
Dark night
20 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:29 AM
Set: 4:43 PM
Dark night
21 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:56 AM
Set: 5:53 PM
Dark night
22 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:26 AM
Set: 7:06 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:03 AM
Set: 8:22 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
New Moon
8:12 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 5:49 AM
Set: 9:35 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 6:46 AM
Set: 10:42 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:54 AM
Set: 11:38 PM
Dark night
27 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:09 AM
Set: –
28 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Dragon Boat Festival
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:26 AM
Set: 12:23 AM
29 Friday
Waxing crescent
Shavuot
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:41 AM
Set: 12:59 AM
30 Saturday
First Quarter
11:23 PM
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:53 PM
Set: 1:30 AM
31 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:02 PM
Set: 1:56 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday