Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Wednesday, December 4 1:59 AM
  • Full Moon Thursday, December 12 12:15 AM Cold Moon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, December 18 11:59 PM
  • New Moon Thursday, December 26 12:16 AM

Also in December

  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 14–15 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 92% lit, 1 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Hanukkah Monday, December 23 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Annular solar eclipse Thursday, December 26, 12:18 AM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 22–29.

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 2019 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:59 AM
Set: 9:58 PM
2 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:35 PM
Set: 10:58 PM
3 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:06 PM
Set: 11:57 PM
4 Wednesday
First Quarter
1:59 AM
Visible: 54% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:33 PM
Set: –
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:59 PM
Set: 12:55 AM
6 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:23 PM
Set: 1:52 AM
7 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:48 PM
Set: 2:50 AM
8 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:15 PM
Set: 3:49 AM
9 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:44 PM
Set: 4:50 AM
10 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:18 PM
Set: 5:53 AM
11 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:57 PM
Set: 6:57 AM
12 Thursday
Full Moon
12:15 AM
Cold Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:44 PM
Set: 8:02 AM
13 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:39 PM
Set: 9:03 AM
14 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:41 PM
Set: 10:00 AM
15 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:49 PM
Set: 10:50 AM
16 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:59 PM
Set: 11:33 AM
17 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:10 PM
Set: 12:11 PM
18 Wednesday
Last Quarter
11:59 PM
Visible: 56% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:44 PM
19 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:21 AM
Set: 1:15 PM
20 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:31 AM
Set: 1:45 PM
21 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:41 AM
Set: 2:15 PM
22 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:51 AM
Set: 2:48 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waning crescent
Hanukkah
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:00 AM
Set: 3:25 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:09 AM
Set: 4:06 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:15 AM
Set: 4:53 PM
Dark night
26 Thursday
New Moon
12:16 AM
Annular solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:15 AM
Set: 5:46 PM
Dark night
27 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:08 AM
Set: 6:44 PM
Dark night
28 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:54 AM
Set: 7:43 PM
Dark night
29 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:32 AM
Set: 8:44 PM
Dark night
30 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:05 AM
Set: 9:44 PM
31 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:34 AM
Set: 10:42 PM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday