Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Friday, April 6 3:20 PM Pink MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Friday, April 13 6:51 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, April 21 3:20 AM
  • First Quarter Sunday, April 29 5:58 AM

Also in April

  • Passover Saturday, April 7 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 8 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 1% lit, 7 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 14–23.

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).

March April 2012 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:26 PM
Set: 3:51 AM
2 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:32 PM
Set: 4:26 AM
3 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:41 PM
Set: 4:59 AM
4 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:52 PM
Set: 5:32 AM
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:05 PM
Set: 6:04 AM
6 Friday
Full Moon
3:20 PM
Pink Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:19 PM
Set: 6:39 AM
7 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:35 PM
Set: 7:17 AM
8 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:49 PM
Set: 8:00 AM
9 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:59 PM
Set: 8:50 AM
10 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:46 AM
11 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:01 AM
Set: 10:48 AM
12 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:55 AM
Set: 11:53 AM
13 Friday
Last Quarter
6:51 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:40 AM
Set: 12:58 PM
14 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:18 AM
Set: 2:03 PM
Dark night
15 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 28% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:51 AM
Set: 3:05 PM
Dark night
16 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:20 AM
Set: 4:06 PM
Dark night
17 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:48 AM
Set: 5:05 PM
Dark night
18 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:14 AM
Set: 6:04 PM
Dark night
19 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:41 AM
Set: 7:02 PM
Dark night
20 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:10 AM
Set: 8:00 PM
Dark night
21 Saturday
New Moon
3:20 AM
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:40 AM
Set: 8:57 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:14 AM
Set: 9:54 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:53 AM
Set: 10:48 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:36 AM
Set: 11:39 PM
25 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:24 AM
Set: –
26 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:17 AM
Set: 12:27 AM
27 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:14 AM
Set: 1:10 AM
28 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:14 PM
Set: 1:48 AM
29 Sunday
First Quarter
5:58 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:17 PM
Set: 2:24 AM
30 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:22 PM
Set: 2:57 AM
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday