Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Friday, December 2 4:53 AM
  • Full Moon Saturday, December 10 9:38 AM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, December 17 7:49 PM
  • New Moon Saturday, December 24 1:08 PM

Also in December

  • Total lunar eclipse Saturday, December 10, 9:32 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 14–15 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 83% lit, 3 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Wednesday, December 21 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 20–27.

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 2011 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 43% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:19 PM
Set: –
2 Friday
First Quarter
4:53 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:45 PM
Set: 12:04 AM
3 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:10 PM
Set: 1:03 AM
4 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:36 PM
Set: 2:01 AM
5 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:03 PM
Set: 2:58 AM
6 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:33 PM
Set: 3:56 AM
7 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:07 PM
Set: 4:54 AM
8 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:45 PM
Set: 5:52 AM
9 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:30 PM
Set: 6:48 AM
10 Saturday
Full Moon
9:38 AM
Cold Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:20 PM
Set: 7:42 AM
11 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:17 PM
Set: 8:31 AM
12 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:17 PM
Set: 9:15 AM
13 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:21 PM
Set: 9:55 AM
14 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:26 PM
Set: 10:30 AM
15 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:32 PM
Set: 11:02 AM
16 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:39 PM
Set: 11:32 AM
17 Saturday
Last Quarter
7:49 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:02 PM
18 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:48 AM
Set: 12:33 PM
19 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:58 AM
Set: 1:07 PM
20 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:09 AM
Set: 1:44 PM
Dark night
21 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:22 AM
Set: 2:28 PM
Dark night
22 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:33 AM
Set: 3:20 PM
Dark night
23 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:39 AM
Set: 4:19 PM
Dark night
24 Saturday
New Moon
1:08 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:39 AM
Set: 5:24 PM
Dark night
25 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:29 AM
Set: 6:32 PM
Dark night
26 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:11 AM
Set: 7:40 PM
Dark night
27 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:47 AM
Set: 8:46 PM
Dark night
28 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:18 AM
Set: 9:49 PM
29 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:46 AM
Set: 10:50 PM
30 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:12 AM
Set: 11:49 PM
31 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:38 AM
Set: –