Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Saturday, May 5 11:36 PM Flower MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, May 12 5:48 PM
  • New Moon Sunday, May 20 7:48 PM
  • First Quarter Monday, May 28 4:16 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 100% lit, 0 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Annular solar eclipse Sunday, May 20, 9:20 PM partly visible from Columbus as a partial eclipse, 59.3% of the Sun covered
  • Shavuot Sunday, May 27 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 14–24.

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).

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:29 PM
Set: 3:28 AM
2 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:39 PM
Set: 3:59 AM
3 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:52 PM
Set: 4:32 AM
4 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:06 PM
Set: 5:08 AM
5 Saturday
Full Moon
11:36 PM
Flower Moon
Supermoon
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:22 PM
Set: 5:48 AM
6 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:36 PM
Set: 6:35 AM
7 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:44 PM
Set: 7:29 AM
8 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:43 PM
Set: 8:31 AM
9 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:37 AM
10 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:34 AM
Set: 10:45 AM
11 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 63% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:16 AM
Set: 11:52 AM
12 Saturday
Last Quarter
5:48 PM
Visible: 53% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:51 AM
Set: 12:57 PM
13 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:23 AM
Set: 1:59 PM
14 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:51 AM
Set: 3:00 PM
Dark night
15 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:18 AM
Set: 3:58 PM
Dark night
16 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:45 AM
Set: 4:56 PM
Dark night
17 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:13 AM
Set: 5:54 PM
Dark night
18 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:43 AM
Set: 6:52 PM
Dark night
19 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:15 AM
Set: 7:48 PM
Dark night
20 Sunday
New Moon
7:48 PM
Annular solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 5:52 AM
Set: 8:43 PM
Dark night
21 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:34 AM
Set: 9:36 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:21 AM
Set: 10:25 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:12 AM
Set: 11:09 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:08 AM
Set: 11:49 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:07 AM
Set: –
26 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:08 AM
Set: 12:25 AM
27 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Shavuot
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:11 PM
Set: 12:58 AM
28 Monday
First Quarter
4:16 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:16 PM
Set: 1:29 AM
29 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:22 PM
Set: 1:59 AM
30 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:31 PM
Set: 2:30 AM
31 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:42 PM
Set: 3:03 AM
1 Friday
2 Saturday